I have a note on this buried in the README file in the original repo:

“You may want to edit the fonts specified in the \setromanfont and 
\setmonofont commands in template.ltx.p, template.pdf.p and 
flatland/flatland-book.ltx.pp; I have them set to Adobe Caslon Pro and 
Triplicate, respectively, so if you don't have those fonts installed you 
will get errors.”


On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 11:39:33 AM UTC-5, Steve Graham wrote:
>
> 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]> 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
>

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