[Nobug] [Lumiera] Back in business...

[Christian Thaeter]

Am Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:35:04 +0200
schrieb "Benny Lyons" <Benny.Lyons at gmx.net>:

> Hi, 
> 
> > ...Thats why I'd
> > like to ask if anyone fond of LaTeX and asciidoc would like to help
> > me to reinstate the asciidoc latex backend. Or helping to
> > communicate and push the code upstream (Stuart was always very kind
> > and positive about our submissions, I only don't want a google
> > account and therefore can't participate on the asciidoc google
> > group).
> Yes, I can certainly take a look into it.  I'm well into Plain TeX,
> less so into LaTeX, and less still into Asciidoc.  However, we still
> have a problem with a Google account: I don't have one.
> 
> I've had a quick look into Asciidoc and it looks like that the said
> tweekings will have to be made in /etc/asciidoc/latex.conf
> on a Debian based system.
> Then generate LaTeX via
>     asciidoc --unsafe --backend=latex foox.txt
> (or are you generating pdf directly? or some other way?)
> 
> As far as I can see, the LaTeX code is more or less configured using
> this file, so the work required will be confined to this file?

Exactly, this latex.conf is not maintained upstream but we improved
it for Nobug and upstream eventually merged some things.
Now I upgraded to wheezy with a much newer asciidoc version and the
latex.conf is very outdated and needs to be brought up to date (as well
as our documentation which uses some deprecated things)

> 
> Looks like an iterative process: modify this file, and have a look at
> the LaTeX that is generated etc (please correct me if I'm wrong).

its a ugly syntax but very regular and usable after one gets over the
initial barrier. I have to look at it again. Making the first Version
(which was based on a dysfunctional latex.conf) was quite some work but
i expect things now become simpler.


	Christian

> 
> Cheers 
> Benny
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:40:36 +0200
> > Von: Christian Thaeter <ct at pipapo.org>
> > An: nobug at lists.pipapo.org, General Discussion about Lumiera
> > <lumiera at lists.lumiera.org> Betreff: [Lumiera] Back in business...
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > after a (very) long break I am finally coming back to Programming on
> > Lumiera and NoBug and all other stuff what left around! It will
> > certainly take me some time to catch up where I left but thinks
> > looking good so far.
> > 
> > As warm-up I am finishing the final bits on the 'builddrone'
> > continuous integration System which will soon be deployed on our
> > Development Server to build, test and package the software we
> > maintain.
> > 
> > After that a long outstanding release of NoBug with some new
> > features is planned. Then Lumiera is on the plan. First some
> > infrastructure improvements we talked about (on FrOSCon) and then
> > finally core programming.
> > 
> > Now with builddrone testing (building NoBug) locally I already ran
> > in some Issues. The Latex backend we once made/improved for
> > asciidoc is quite broken and outdated and needs a makeover. This
> > was meant to be the backbone for creating high quality printed user
> > documentation (for NoBug and Lumiera). You can check the old docs
> > on the NoBug page
> > (http://nobug.pipapo.org/releases/nobug_manual.pdf). I am quite
> > excited about the quality over the normal dblatex generated PDF.
> > Thats why I'd like to ask if anyone fond of LaTeX and asciidoc
> > would like to help me to reinstate the asciidoc latex backend. Or
> > helping to communicate and push the code upstream (Stuart was
> > always very kind and positive about our submissions, I only don't
> > want a google account and therefore can't participate on the
> > asciidoc google group).
> > 
> > 
> > 	Christian
> > 
> > 
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