From: "Elias Salomão Helou Neto" <eshneto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:27:05 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-01-16T04:27:05-08:00 [thread overview]
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On 15 jan, 23:27, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> From the *practical* point of view, I can think of many features
> available in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer (or FrameMaker
> or Ventura Publisher, or Adobe Something) not available in TeX.
How to generate the file formats required by these softs from Ada?
> That's by design.
Yep. They're not designed as intermediate formats to be generated
programatically.
> Nevertheless, The ISO Fortran 2003 draft document is
> proof that LaTeX is a possibility for this kind of document.
Thank you for pointing out the example, but not automatically
generated.
> Some
> documents accompanying a SofCheck compiler are produced from Lout input.
The same than TeX, but different language paradigm. Furthermore, Lout
is not fully capable to generate PDFs.
> So that works, too. (TeXmacs is a formidable editor for technical
> stuff. Interestingly, it doesn't use TeX files for storage.)
Probably because of its nearly WYSIWYG nature. It is not suitable for
automatically generating PDFs. You will have to edit the stuff
manually. Should we consider using TeXmacs' own format as
intermediate?
> TeX's primary *objective* was/is to provide everything for math books,
Primary. But it does hit farther targets.
> Anything a little more fancy is brittle and
> takes huge efforts to get going smoothly (again, from a practical
> point of view).
Most things are done already and there are packages for about anything
one needs.
> Flexibility comes with additions like PSTricks.
> Nice, but no longer just TeX, and certainly, well, full of tricks.
It is TeX. There is no need to modify the typesetting software because
of the \special macro.
> But that's a book... hyperref won't give you Eclipse help views
> easily, or will it? Or .info files.
Why do you mention it? The OP wanted PDFs! When did .info files or
Eclipse help views come into play?
Let us get things straight here. The OP wanted PDFs, if you're using
PDF, you surely want excellent typesetting. As I see TeX is a great
tool for this job.
Elias
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-09 1:00 Generating PDFs with Ada R. Tyler Croy
2011-01-09 9:29 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-10 2:29 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-10 3:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-10 10:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-10 17:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-15 13:55 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-15 14:51 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-15 15:20 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-15 17:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 3:13 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-16 3:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-09 9:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-09 11:28 ` leonid
2011-01-09 15:36 ` Gautier write-only
2011-01-10 18:54 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-11 1:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-11 8:51 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-11 15:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-11 18:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 20:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-11 20:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-11 22:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-11 22:14 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 22:22 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-11 22:32 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 22:38 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-12 1:37 ` Shark8
2011-01-12 9:42 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-12 22:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-13 8:29 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-12 9:36 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-12 13:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-12 14:16 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-12 9:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-01-12 9:44 ` sjw
2011-01-12 10:44 ` Manuel Collado
2011-01-12 13:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-12 10:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-12 21:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-01-12 21:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-12 23:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-13 8:33 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-13 9:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-13 20:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-13 22:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-14 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-13 23:59 ` Edward Fish
2011-01-15 15:04 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-15 17:45 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-15 23:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-16 2:49 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-16 3:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 11:59 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-16 12:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-16 14:25 ` (see below)
2011-01-16 16:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-16 20:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 15:33 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-16 16:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-16 21:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 20:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 1:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-16 2:49 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 12:27 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto [this message]
2011-01-16 19:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-12 21:06 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-12 14:14 ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
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