From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 8 12:19:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3137A14C5A; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11239; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:44:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 12:44:21 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ben Cohen Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Student project ideas In-Reply-To: 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 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