On 1/23/2012 5:12 AM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote:
(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....
If you look at the pure pod version, we at least
need to have a box with words in it to fill the
same space.
(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.
It is very difficult to do a text about computation
and science/engineering while avoiding the language
of science---mathematics. It is _essential_ to provide
at some point: options include standardize to LaTeX
equations and generate images to include them, there
is a math-html for web browsers that could be used,
...
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.
Nothing holy, just memory limitations of cygwin.
I just reported the problem as it would be an
issue on machines with smaller memory---like the
256MB laptop I have across the room...
The only hangup with making individual PDFs is the final merge, which
adds another dependency and also loses the page numbering.
This sort of thing is why we'll eventually want more
control of the PDF conversion process with our own
code.
--Chris
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