Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-30 Thread Lex Trotman
I had the feeling that nearly every suggestion wasn't searching for a compromise we as contributors to the newsletter can work with but pointing the mentioned solution as the only one - which is a valid way, but well you know. Ah well, nobody is going to bother to put forward something

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-27 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 27.05.2011 04:01, schrieb Lex Trotman: Given that: * the various markup formats and their tools can all easily produce nice-looking html, pdf, and text output * people have their own preferences regarding doc markup formats * different people at different times may produce a given

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-27 Thread Lex Trotman
Please fill in the wikipage by using the feature list I provided. There will be a poll in maybe 1 week and we will do the decission. No big further discussion here please. Well thats one way of doing it, maybe... To be honest I'm really sick of this discussion, as changing to ReST wasn't

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-26 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 25.05.2011 19:07, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Le 25/05/2011 18:27, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Sound good ;) I will give it a try tomorrow. BUT: PDF already looks very well. Huge Thanks! No problem :) The point I think that should be improved is image sizing/placement, but I can't tell how

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-26 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 26/05/2011 10:46, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Am 25.05.2011 19:07, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Le 25/05/2011 18:27, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Sound good ;) I will give it a try tomorrow. BUT: PDF already looks very well. Huge Thanks! No problem :) The point I think that should be improved is

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-26 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 26/05/2011 04:10, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi All, I made a version of the newsletter using asciidoc and generated HTML, PDF and text. Don't look too different from ReST, good. See: https://github.com/elextr/geany_stuff/commit/d094fb77d37bd00c4172041ea95be08ba294460c The HTML has the

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-26 Thread John Gabriele
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I made a version of the newsletter using asciidoc and generated HTML, PDF and text. See: {snip} Given that: * the various markup formats and their tools can all easily produce nice-looking html, pdf, and text

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-26 Thread Lex Trotman
On 27 May 2011 03:04, Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 26/05/2011 04:10, Lex Trotman a écrit : Hi All, I made a version of the newsletter using asciidoc and generated HTML, PDF and text. Don't look too different from ReST, good. That was the point :-) (for HTML

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-26 Thread Lex Trotman
Given that:  * the various markup formats and their tools can all easily produce nice-looking html, pdf, and text output  * people have their own preferences regarding doc markup formats  * different people at different times may produce a given newsletter  * no one ever has to go back and

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-25 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 24.05.2011 23:33, schrieb Frank Lanitz: On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:07:52 +0200 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 24/05/2011 16:14, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but not working: frlan@ubuntu:~/git/newsletter$ LANG=C vol=2 make pdf maxpasses=5; \

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-25 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 25/05/2011 15:45, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Am 24.05.2011 23:33, schrieb Frank Lanitz: On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:07:52 +0200 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 24/05/2011 16:14, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but not working:

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-25 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Wed, 25 May 2011 18:11:16 +0200 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 25/05/2011 15:45, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Am 24.05.2011 23:33, schrieb Frank Lanitz: On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:07:52 +0200 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 24/05/2011 16:14,

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-25 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 25/05/2011 18:27, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Sound good ;) I will give it a try tomorrow. BUT: PDF already looks very well. Huge Thanks! No problem :) The point I think that should be improved is image sizing/placement, but I can't tell how to fix this without adding one more sed replacement,

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-25 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi All, I made a version of the newsletter using asciidoc and generated HTML, PDF and text. See: https://github.com/elextr/geany_stuff/commit/d094fb77d37bd00c4172041ea95be08ba294460c The HTML has the images embedded just to make it a single file, they link by default. Commands used: For

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-24 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 24.05.2011 03:21, schrieb Lex Trotman: Actually now I do, same as your problem, you need to run pdflatex several times for it to work, but nothing says how many times. And thats only one of the reasons I don't like latex. In most cases running 2 times is enough. But there are also build

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-24 Thread Colomban Wendling
Hey, Le 23/05/2011 11:05, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Am 23.05.2011 10:50, schrieb Lex Trotman: I thought PDF was generated via latex and I wasn't about to try to tell *you* how to get Latex to do the numbering :-) With change to ReST this has been changed as the TeX export is causing

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-24 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 24/05/2011 03:28, Russell Dickenson a écrit : Is anyone open to idea of switching to AsciiDoc markup and set of tools? It can definitely output plain text, HTML and PDF, with and without Table Of Contents. I don't really mind, but: 1) is AsciiDoc really more flexible or does it only have

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-24 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 24.05.2011 15:58, schrieb Colomban Wendling: Hey, Le 23/05/2011 11:05, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Am 23.05.2011 10:50, schrieb Lex Trotman: I thought PDF was generated via latex and I wasn't about to try to tell *you* how to get Latex to do the numbering :-) With change to ReST this has

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-24 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 24/05/2011 16:14, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but not working: frlan@ubuntu:~/git/newsletter$ LANG=C vol=2 make pdf maxpasses=5; \ file=`basename vol_2/newsletter_2.tex .tex`; \ cd `dirname vol_2/newsletter_2.tex` \ pdflatex -interaction

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-24 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:07:52 +0200 Colomban Wendling lists@herbesfolles.org wrote: Le 24/05/2011 16:14, Frank Lanitz a écrit : Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but not working: frlan@ubuntu:~/git/newsletter$ LANG=C vol=2 make pdf maxpasses=5; \ file=`basename

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 23.05.2011 04:13, schrieb John Gabriele: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Geany Newsletter #2 --- Contents {snip} Great newsletter! Would be helpful if there were a link at the top of the newsletter email pointing

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Lex Trotman
Me too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to create this by using RST but failed. Input is welcome. Replace the h1 and h2 CSS definitions with the following: body { counter-reset: counter1; counter-reset: counter2; } h1:before { content: counter(counter1) ; } h1.title:before { content: ; } h1 {

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 23.05.2011 10:08, schrieb Lex Trotman: Me too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to create this by using RST but failed. Input is welcome. Replace the h1 and h2 CSS definitions with the following: body { counter-reset: counter1; counter-reset: counter2; } h1:before { content:

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Lex Trotman
On 23 May 2011 18:33, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Am 23.05.2011 10:08, schrieb Lex Trotman: Me too. Unfortunately I wasn't able to create this by using RST but failed. Input is welcome. Replace the h1 and h2 CSS definitions with the following: body { counter-reset: counter1;

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 23.05.2011 10:50, schrieb Lex Trotman: I thought PDF was generated via latex and I wasn't about to try to tell *you* how to get Latex to do the numbering :-) With change to ReST this has been changed as the TeX export is causing nightmares to me in current state. Cheers, Frank

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 23.05.2011 10:50, schrieb Lex Trotman: And like a great man once said: all interesting programs have at least one counter, at least one loop and at least one bug, so the first line should read body { counter-reset: counter1 -1 counter2; } otherwise the heading counts as 1. Hehe.

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi John, Yeah pandoc is a useful tool, but everytime I have used it in the past it does nearly everything not quite perfectly :-) Here it is as html http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/temp/geany/newsletter_2.html , produced using [Pandoc] via the following command: `pandoc -s --toc -N

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread John Gabriele
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Yeah pandoc is a useful tool, but everytime I have used it in the past it does nearly everything not quite perfectly :-) I like it because the markup is pretty (and easy and fast to type), and it's easy to process

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Lex Trotman
I like it because the markup is pretty (and easy and fast to type), and it's easy to process into multiple formats. I presume you mean markdown markup, pun intended I'm sure. Its just another lightweight markup language, not much between any of them, my personal favorite is Asciidoc but more

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Lex Trotman
Is anyone open to idea of switching to AsciiDoc markup and set of tools? It can definitely output plain text, HTML and PDF, with and without Table Of Contents. If there are no loud objections I'll put together samples of the newsletter's source file in AsciiDoc markup converted into plain

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread John Gabriele
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Lex Trotman ele...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone open to idea of switching to AsciiDoc markup and set of tools? It can definitely output plain text, HTML and PDF, with and without Table Of Contents. If there are no loud objections I'll put together samples of

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-23 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi John, Let me declare at the outset that I have contributed a few minor patches to Asciidoc and respond to some mailing list queries and I am using it within a Python project, so I am not an unbiased observer. :-) Sphinx utilizes reST and the docutils tools under the covers. BTW, all the

[Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-22 Thread Frank Lanitz
Geany Newsletter #2 --- Contents About Geany Geany Development Update to Scintilla 2.25 Real-time tag parsing Automatic indentation width detection Fixes to template encoding Plugins New plugins geanycfp

Re: [Geany] Geany Newsletter Vol. 2

2011-05-22 Thread John Gabriele
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Geany Newsletter #2 --- Contents {snip} Great newsletter! Would be helpful if there were a link at the top of the newsletter email pointing to the online html version: