Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:14:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Student project ideas Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10a.9911082012090.25831-100000@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991107204057.A89993@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: >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. > >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. I think (to my supervisors) maintaining a set of macros wouldn't be acceptable;) but writing a SGML to TeX converter/compiler could be. I'll have to look at this in more detail... Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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