Re: [Po4a-devel]Call for a (La)TeX module
Hello,
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:46:53PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
this is a very decent start, please commit it. Just rename it to
LaTeX.pm
before. The case is important, and Latex is different.
Do you rather TeX or LaTeX?
You have a strange if (0) somewhere, and docheader is still from the
man
module.
Removed and fixed.
% is the comment sign, but it can be escaped and \% produce a percent
sign.
\\\% produce a line break (meaning of \\) and then a percent sign.
Any drawback in converting \\ to \newline?
(It will simplify the handling of commands and comments because I won't
need to test for an even or odd number of backslashes)
In tex, spaces at the begining of the line are not meanfull. So
"toto%
toto"
is equivalent to "totototo".
nonbreaking space in latex is ~, just in case you want to populate the
pre/post translation.
My (La)?TeX is quite rusty;)
Please do die on commands you don't know.
Is there a way to make die not dying?
At this time I found printf easier for testing because it permits to test
a whole file.
But anyway, it now works a little and I will just die for the commit;)
That's all I've seen sofar. I didn't see any Python
specificity. Could you
point me to some examples?
Maybe \index
Maybe also the way I'm treating \index when they are at the beginning or
the end of a paragraph.
Otherwise, there are some \begin{productionlist}, \production{...}{...}
\productioncont{...}, \begin{tableiii} \lineiii etc. (They are not
supported yet)
For more information, search the net for
"JoliManuelPourLaTeX.ps". It's in
french, obviously. It's becoming a bit old and the discution about modules
is not very accurate anymore, but it's a rather good introduction.
You have an info file I use rather often as a reference in the package
tetex-bin: "info latex". Maybe not sufficient as an introduction, and does
cover tex at all ("info tex" is a pitfall speaking of texinfo).
Thanks! I definitely need these pointers.
Could you please include what you didn't implement yet from my
proposals as
comment? Verbatim if you don't want to bother too much.
I will reply to your previous mail for this point.
To support texinfo, I will need to support commands not starting by a \
but an @.
Some TeX questions:
* Does a line starting by a command has a special meaning when inside a
paragraph?
For example, I've seen:
Who
{}\code{are}
you?
but also:
Who
\code{are}
you?
Are those paragraphs different?
* Is there any problem if a space is added at the end of lines?
* Any idea on how to test the results? (diffing dvi?)
--
Nekral