Re: [racket-dev] Scribble output changes

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:54:07 -0400, Prabhakar Ragde wrote: > For what it's worth, I found the documentation on tables largely > incomprehensible, and could not get them to render through LaTeX without > everything all mushed together. I agree. (As it happens, if I had continued working on Scrib

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23181: master branch updated

2011-08-05 Thread Robby Findler
How about #:mode (sum I I O) for the mode spec where the #:mode keyword is optional but, if present must be followed by what looks like a use of the relation but with a Mode? Robby On Friday, August 5, 2011, Casey Klein wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:13 AM, wrote: >> clklein has updated

[racket-dev] Scribble output changes

2011-08-05 Thread Prabhakar Ragde
Matthew wrote: Latex output changed in more ways: * Table content is vertically centered by default, making it more consistent with HTML. * In a table cell, a paragraph with a `#f' style name is rendered as a single line (as before), but a width is imposed on paragraphs that have a

Re: [racket-dev] New plot library [Was: (to Jay) Re: What I'm working on]

2011-08-05 Thread Neil Toronto
Redirecting this from Kevin back to the group, because I think at least plot2d is good enough for anyone to play with now. I've put all of it here: https://github.com/ntoronto/plt-stuff/tree/master/plot The main module files are meant to be plot2d.rkt and plot3d.rkt. Both contain tests ri

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23181: master branch updated

2011-08-05 Thread Casey Klein
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:13 AM, wrote: > clklein has updated `master' from 1a65678924 to 576272362b. >  http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/1a65678924..576272362b > This push adds a more general way to define relations in Redex, currently under the name define-judgment-form. For those of you familiar

Re: [racket-dev] search (was Roogle?)

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
This matches my understanding. N. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > So where does this leave us: > > 1. with very little data about real searches, which happen locally, via > DrRacket  (would it matter if we could do a Guillaume-style data collection > for a few doz

Re: [racket-dev] Racket and Text Editors

2011-08-05 Thread Vincent St-Amour
I've added an updated version of the document to the Guide. If you think it's not in the right place, I'm fine with putting it elsewhere. Vincent At Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:30:47 -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > > > As I mentioned at RacketCon, I've been working (with help from Asumu > Takikawa a

Re: [racket-dev] bug czar and documentation king

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
The king is dead -- long live the king! On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > We than Ryan Culpepper (Utah) for his work as bug czar for the past year or > so. > > As of the next release, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (NEU) will take over the bug czar > duty. > > Ryan will become

[racket-dev] bug czar and documentation king

2011-08-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
We than Ryan Culpepper (Utah) for his work as bug czar for the past year or so. As of the next release, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (NEU) will take over the bug czar duty. Ryan will become king of documentation, with the charge to improve its organization and presentation. Thanks guys -- Matthias

[racket-dev] search (was Roogle?)

2011-08-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
So where does this leave us: 1. with very little data about real searches, which happen locally, via DrRacket (would it matter if we could do a Guillaume-style data collection for a few dozen students?) 2. with an understood deficit on our search; I haven't seen anyone deny this 3. a few op

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
2011/8/5 Stephen Chang For online, full-text search, couldn't one just use google and add > "site:docs.racket-lang.org" to the query? The Google stemmer is well-suited for natural languages. It sucks for Scheme/Racket identifiers. Try for example to find cons* or list? . /Jens Axel __

Re: [racket-dev] Racket and Text Editors

2011-08-05 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Fri, 5 Aug 2011 03:22:07 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > The problem is that the meta collection is not intended for > distribution. Even if it's moved to some collection that will get > included, it's an abuse of what `collects' means at the moment. I see. How about a `contrib' directory at the

[racket-dev] Scribble output changes

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Flatt
For HTML output, `racketblock' and `codeblock' now use a style that discourages line wrapping. So, when you make code that is too wide, it will usually[*] extend past the right margin instead of wrapping lines. This doesn't mean that too-wide code is ok; it's just a better failure mode in most case

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Stephen Chang wrote: > For online, full-text search, couldn't one just use google and add > "site:docs.racket-lang.org" to the query? Yeah, that seems to do it. The ordering of results is a bit odd sometimes. I don't know the details but Google offers site specific

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Stephen Chang
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Noel is absolutely right. > > We live in an era where Search Just Works.  I do dozens of Google > searches on most days.  To go from there to Help Desk is an incredibly > jarring experience.  I have to load new instructions into my hea

[racket-dev] Better than roogle? (was: Re: Roogle?)

2011-08-05 Thread John Clements
... related idea I had about two years ago: don't search on types, search on inputs & desired outputs. So: (? (list 3 4 5)) => (list 5 4 3) ... produces "reverse". How does it get there? By simply trying them all. You could narrow the search by checking first for arity, and then perhaps by d

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
I suspect your related work section missed a few. (-: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > It was my Diplomarbeit finished in 1983, so that makes it 28 years now. > > > > On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > >> This idea is proposed roughly every 2

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It was my Diplomarbeit finished in 1983, so that makes it 28 years now. On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > This idea is proposed roughly every 2-3 years for at least 30 years. > I am not aware of anyone having made this idea "fly". > > Shriram > > On Fri, Aug 5, 201

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
Noel is absolutely right. We live in an era where Search Just Works. I do dozens of Google searches on most days. To go from there to Help Desk is an incredibly jarring experience. I have to load new instructions into my head: "stick to one word", "stem!", etc., that I haven't had to use on sea

Re: [racket-dev] Problems compiling Racket-5.1.2 on SunOS5.10(x86)

2011-08-05 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:26:55 -0500, Kent Mein wrote: > I'm trying to compile 5.1.2 on SunOS5.10(x86) and I'm getting the > following errors, anyone have any ideas? > > [...] > > ffi-obj: couldn't get "scheme_register_process_global" from #f (libc.so.1: > racketcgc: fatal: scheme_register_process

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Ah, if you mean a way to have both kinds of searches work on your > installation Yes. > Well, the issue was exactly the dependency on an on-line connection > and no user-specific docs. For the first, the ajax request should get around it. Fo

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
About a minute ago, Noel Welsh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > About a minute ago, Noel Welsh wrote: > >> With the power of asynchronous requests (aka ajax) it is. I've > >> gotta fix Myna first; maybe then I'll have a spare moment to > >> implement it. > > > > Tha

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > About a minute ago, Noel Welsh wrote: >> With the power of asynchronous requests (aka ajax) it is. I've gotta >> fix Myna first; maybe then I'll have a spare moment to implement it. > > That doesn't help with the goal of standalone docs. > Sor

Re: [racket-dev] Racket and Text Editors

2011-08-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
9 hours ago, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > At Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:08:58 -0300, Rodolfo Carvalho wrote: > > > > About Bash completion, [...] > > That's a good point. > > I think it would be nice to have it be part of the regular > distribution. Eli, is there a way to do that? The problem is that the

Re: [racket-dev] Problems compiling Racket-5.1.2 on SunOS5.10(x86)

2011-08-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
12 hours ago, Kent Mein wrote: > I'm trying to compile 5.1.2 on SunOS5.10(x86) and I'm getting the > following errors, anyone have any ideas? > > I used --disable-libffi when calling configure. Even if you make the C compilation go through by disabling plot, you'll run into problems in many other

[racket-dev] Problems compiling Racket-5.1.2 on SunOS5.10(x86)

2011-08-05 Thread Kent Mein
I'm trying to compile 5.1.2 on SunOS5.10(x86) and I'm getting the following errors, anyone have any ideas? I used --disable-libffi when calling configure. make[4]: Entering directory `/home/staff01/mein/Downloads/racket-5.1.2/src/plot' env CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall " LDFLAGS=" " ../racket/r

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
About a minute ago, Noel Welsh wrote: > With the power of asynchronous requests (aka ajax) it is. I've gotta > fix Myna first; maybe then I'll have a spare moment to implement it. That doesn't help with the goal of standalone docs. > [Either add a stage to the build process so docs.racket-lang.o

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Noel Welsh
With the power of asynchronous requests (aka ajax) it is. I've gotta fix Myna first; maybe then I'll have a spare moment to implement it. [Either add a stage to the build process so docs.racket-lang.org gets a different search to the local docs or do an Ajax request to the full text server and, up

Re: [racket-dev] Roogle?

2011-08-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
Three minutes ago, Noel Welsh wrote: > > In conclusion, I think adding full text search (e.g. Lucene/Solr) > would have the largest impact on the existing search and this > doesn't even require much implementation work. Pick the low hanging > fruit! Changing from a simple JS search that can be in