>> (1) we need to have a pod-only option for >> the various figures---I'm thinking >> ascii art versions with some text
I was thinking of using png2ascii or some such variation, because hand drawing text figures is painful - something to experiment for 2.4.11.... >> >> (2) we need a way to have TeX/LaTeX/... >> equations and symbols in the documents >> at least for the HTML and PDF versions. > We shouldn't have to use TeX equations to explain PDL. It's no problem to add the tex in the POD, but it really shouldn't be an *essential* part of the Book. > I tried to update the make_book.pl script > but when it ran it dies on my cygwin > system because of an out of memory failure. > Is there a way to generate the PDF files > in a less intensive fashion? Maybe by > chapter and then combine? Holy crow! It runs with no problem on Mac Lion, so I'm not sure what the cause may be for you. But I'm happy to switch to something else for PDF generation. The only hangup with making individual PDFs is the final merge, which adds another dependency and also loses the page numbering. Matt -- Matthew Kenworthy / Assistant Professor / Leiden Observatory Niels Bohrweg 2 (#463) / P.O. Box 9513 / 2300 RA Leiden / NL _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
