[racket-users] embedding fonts for slideshow (was Re: slideshow for non-technical presentations)

2017-10-26 Thread Gour
On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 19:39:40 -0400 Asumu Takikawa wrote: > One thing that's not portable is the fonts that you use. You will > probably have to install the same fonts or ensure that you only > use fonts that are available on both machines. I'm resuming my interest for Racket stuff and, afaict, ba

Re: [racket-users] `raco pkg install` from private GitHub repo?

2017-10-26 Thread Jay McCarthy
Okay, what's going on here is that it is supposed to first try without your password and then try with it. But it is failing with something other than a exn:fail:git? so it isn't catching it and trying again. We either need to change that to exn:fail? or audit net/git-checkout and make sure that it

Re: [racket-users] `raco pkg install` from private GitHub repo?

2017-10-26 Thread Matthew Butterick
FWIW for this command: raco pkg install https://github.com/mbutterick/app.git The exception is `exn:fail:user` ("raco pkg install: Git checkout initial protocol failed; the given URL might not refer to a Git repository") And for this command: raco pkg install http://github.com/mbutterick/a

Re: [racket-users] `raco pkg install` from private GitHub repo?

2017-10-26 Thread Matthew Flatt
Yes, that makes sense. The "checkout initial protocol failed" error is from the package manager in "private/stage.rkt". If the package manager didn't provide `#:initial-error` there, then `git-checkout` would raise an `exn:fail:git` exception. At Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:04:35 -0700, Matthew Butterick

[racket-users] Community or Junior Colleges using Racket for Introductory or Other Courses

2017-10-26 Thread ben.rudgers
My child is a High School junior and has some interest (and some healthy disinterest) in pursuing computer science/engineering/programming/etc. As a Lisphead and in the interest of presenting a diversity of options if it winds up being computer etcetera, I am curious if there are an Junior/Comm

[racket-users] Call for Participation: ICFP 2017

2017-10-26 Thread 'Lindsey Kuper' via users-redirect
CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2018 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming September 23-29, 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, United States http://conf.researchr.

[racket-users] Call for Workshop Proposals: ICFP 2018

2017-10-26 Thread 'Lindsey Kuper' via users-redirect
[ Please disregard previous version sent with the wrong subject line. ] CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND CO-LOCATED EVENT PROPOSALS ICFP 2018 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming September 23-29, 2018