From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 8 12:15:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from orange.csi.cam.ac.uk (orange.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B8914BF8; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23 (helo=localhost) by orange.csi.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11kvBg-00014Y-00; Mon, 08 Nov 1999 20:14:48 +0000 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:14:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Cohen X-Sender: bjc23@orange.csi.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Student project ideas In-Reply-To: <19991107204057.A89993@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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