Wow! Fantastic! This is far better for the man pages than anything I could have imagined. We will need to incorporate this into PDL::Book.
Great work! On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Joel Berger <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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