On 04/11/2014 03:48 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> AFAICS the .tex source files need update...
Sure. I'm not at this stage yet. I first wanted to have it compile with
not too many errors. I still have to produce the index.
> Also, long results are in a single line and get truncated at
> the right margin.
Yeah, all the tex files should be piped through texbreak. I hope this
still works.
> In general it looks good. I noticed one formatting glitch
> on book page 70 (dvi page 101), namely the expression
> '[10^(i-1) for i in 2..5]' in text has '10' and '(i-1)'
> too close togethe, so '^' is over the opening parenthesis
> in '(i-1)'. Few lines below is version as a command
> which is OK.
Arrrrhhh... that's exactly the problem with ^. It cannot just be escaped
via \ but needs something like \^{} and even that doesn't work in all
situations. I find \^{} much too ugly (and I don't even know what that
would produce for HyperDoc. However, due to the way the \xtcLong command
works, I think I have to convince awk to produce slightly other tex
sources that then work without any backslashes.
BTW, do you think it is important to keep the formatting into two
columns as in the original book? HyperDoc puts the side comments (the
first argument of \xtc) just before the actual command while in the book
it's a comment in a small left column.
Changing the format would make it easier to rewrite the source to a more
modern latex style that would allow simpler processing. I would try to
keep the information (i.e. that \xtc (or rather \xtcLong) is devided
into #1 comment, #2 command input, #3 math output, #4 stepnumber, #5
type) so that eventually (by proper definition in the .sty file) one
could reproduce the two column form.
Personally, I find that two column mode nice, but not too important,
since I aim at producing an HTML version so that we could eventually
remove the book part from HyperDoc and rather have it viewed by an
ordinary browser.
Ralf
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