On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 7:43:44 PM UTC-7, Matthew Butterick wrote: > > > On Mar 20, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Steve Graham <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I have started to write a book on programming using various languages to > illustrate different concepts. My plan has been to use orgmode's babel to > produce the book because it enables you to actually execute code within a > document and see the output -- either in the document or in a file -- and > to publish the document. > > I've also been reading about Pollen and have seen some videos of Matthew > discussing Racket and Pollen and *Beautiful Racket*. Other than that I > don't know anything about Pollen. > > Finally I would like to publish it in 3 formats: Paperback, pdf and > Kindle. > > What are your thoughts about using orgmode versus Pollen for this project? > > > I've never used orgmode, so no comparative opinion there. > > A Kindle is a fancy set of HTML pages, so that seems doable. > > PDF is a precursor to paperback, so assuming you're satisfied with LaTeX > output, that seems doable (again, I yield to Joel Dueck on these matters, > who is on the cutting edge) > > The evaluation part ... hmm. With Beautiful Racket I used pygments for all > the syntax highlighting, which pipes code to a python process and gets a > result. Similarly, you could make Pollen functions that send their input to > an external process and then pop in the result. Don't know if the speed > would be acceptable, but you could cache the results of these eval blocks, > SMOP, etc. > > Probably the best way to compare them is to put together a short sample > and see which you prefer. >
--- Thanks, Matthew. Good idea to compare them with a short sample. Not sure where to report a bug in try-pollen or if I should just report it to you or to Joel too. But when I cloned your version and ran make all, I got an error: ! fontspec error: "font-not-found" ! ! The font "Adobe Caslon Pro" cannot be found. Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
