From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 8 11:34:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8BE14F58 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 11:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA99474; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:21:26 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA90027; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:40:58 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:40:57 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Ben Cohen Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Student project ideas Message-ID: <19991107204057.A89993@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Cohen on Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:51:11PM +0000 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 05:51:11PM +0000, Ben Cohen wrote: > I'm a student doing Computer Science at Cambridge University. This year I > have to do a project (to take about 8 months), and I wondered if you can > suggest anything. Absolutely. > (I'd probably find writing tools for X, networking, TeX/LaTeX and system > admin stuff interesting, although not all ideas will be suitable for this > project. If someone suggests something that I find interesting, I might > do it sometime anyway, even if it isn't suitable;) The Documentation Project could use your help with TeX. Specifically, we have an application, called Jade, that we use to convert the FreeBSD documentation from it's source format, to TeX format, which we then process through TeX to produce PS and PDF versions of the FAQ, the Handbook, and so on. The problem is that Jade doesn't write raw TeX. Instead, it assumes that the TeX installation includes a macro package that provides a specific set of macro calls. The .tex file produced from Jade contains copious calls to these macros. At the moment, we have a macro package called JadeTeX that (partially) implements these calls. You can find it in the ports tree, as print/jadetex. However, the current maintainer (Sebastien Rahtz) is moving on to other things, and won't be maintaining it. The JadeTeX macros need a new maintainer. This might include scrapping them and starting again, or it might consist of updating the existing code to cope with its various shortcomings. If you're interested, I can also point you at a mailing list full of people who have ideas for things that JadeTeX should provide that it currently doesn't support. N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis show stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message