Ok so Text::AsciiTeX has been released to CPAN, see my announcement here http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2012/01/announcing-textasciitex.html
I still need to find a way to hook it into text-based POD renderers so that it can actually be of use here. Additionally, I don't know if anyone else has a blogs.perl.org blog or a blog which is aggregated to perlsphere.net? Since I do, I would be honored to post an announcement for PDL 2.4.10 when it happens. Further, with a note to Gabor Szabo we can surely get a high billing in the Perl Weekly that he publishes (I have myself been mentioned a couple of times for far lesser items). Anyway let me know, Cheers, Joel On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Joel Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > In response to some of this, I am working on a Perl port of the > AsciiTeX program. Its almost complete, see more at > https://github.com/jberger/Text-AsciiTeX . > > Once I get that going then I will have to figure out how to hook into > a POD renderer. With this facility text based POD readers can see the > formulae too! > > For POD to LaTeX there seems to be plenty of converter engines, then > from there its an easy render to PDF. > > Cheers, > Joel > > P.S. I will probably make an announcement on blogs.perl.org once its > ready (mirrored on perlsphere.net). > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:31 AM, chm <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
