[NTG-context] something new, user-interfacing to context

[Hans Hagen]

Hi,

I uploaded a first version of the lightweight eXaMpLe framework. Think of a user interface to:

- interactive page imposition (more extensive than texexec, including test bed; more documentation will follow)

- an interface to pstopdf, a script on top of ghostscript, which provides a couple of goodies.

Processes like these are driven bij xml-data streams and handled by a service on localhost (more extensive distributed processing is under construction).

The example things are distributed in a separate zip:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-exa.zip

you can unzip both in your local tree and generate formats as usual.

If you launch

.../context/examplap/gui/examplap.pdf

and browse a bit around, you'll get an idea what is happening.

In order for it to really work, a couple of things are needed:

(1) you need to install ruby and have ruby in your bin path
(2) you need to launch exampler.rb --continue

more can be found in

http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ex-gui.pdf

There will be a lot more, for instance interfaces to the figure library, correspondence, etc.

The low level things are under construction, so don't start building on it yourself before eximple.pdf and example.pdf go public (manuals).

I tested in with fptex/windows; later i will make it miktex ready (waiting for input from mr bigfoot); linux works here, but probably also needs some work.

Hans


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