Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:44:21 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Student project ideas Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911081242350.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10a.9911082012090.25831-100000@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Ben Cohen wrote: > 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... an offtopic suggestion: hrm, y'know a nice tk interface to writing/editing manpages would be nice, some people would be very interested in such a tool for let's say, documenting the kernel without having to futz with troff all that much... :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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