From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o4g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Elias_Salom=E3o_Helou_Neto?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:27:05 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <90294a5b-d915-45c4-ab85-4811dc4a24af@o4g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <9f23e50a-2c2c-4ccc-bd56-f6ffdc6c7ee7@37g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <82aaj73jsr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7a048419-1126-45b2-bfa9-26f3ad6e480e@fu15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4d32496c$0$7669$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.103.27.62 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1295180825 11258 127.0.0.1 (16 Jan 2011 12:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o4g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=189.103.27.62; posting-account=8auP9QoAAACkSx2qxJhP83KA6-tg78E8 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8 SUSE/7.0.528.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.528.0 Safari/534.8,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16449 Date: 2011-01-16T04:27:05-08:00 List-Id: On 15 jan, 23:27, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > =A0From 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. =A0 (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... =A0hyperref won't give you Eclipse help views > easily, or will it? =A0Or .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