On 2013-10-05 16:55-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> As of revision 12582, I have implemented this change [to pure UTF-8
approach] which I hope is
> the last fundamental change in how we generate our documentation for
> years to come. I have also substantially updated
> doc/docbook/README.developers[.
This morning I found the unifont font which completely
eliminates missing glyphs from the pdf form of our
documentation. To try this for yourself locally,
apply the following patch:
Index: dblatex_stylesheet.xsl
===
--- dblatex_styl
Hi Alan,
> -Original Message-
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 1:55 AM
> To: Andrew Ross; Orion Poplawski
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Project to replace DocBook backend SGML tool
On 2013-09-06 09:57-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2013-09-06 10:09+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
>> Some comments:
>>
>> The cmake support is not too robust at the moment as my testing shows. We
>> probably need to test for e.g. fop if that is required so that it fails
>> gracefully (and with a helpful
On 2013-09-06 10:09+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
> On Friday 30 Aug 2013 23:43:55 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> On 2013-08-24 16:50-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> On 2013-08-21 16:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
In the next day or so I plan to play a bit more with dblatex to see if
I can generate dvi r
On 2013-09-06 10:18+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
> One further comment - in the old version plplpot functions were highlighted in
> red which was nice. Now they are in typewriter font.
> I quite liked the red
> font, but there are advantages to being black and white and I don't feel too
> strongly. May
On Friday 30 Aug 2013 23:43:55 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2013-08-24 16:50-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> > On 2013-08-21 16:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> >> In the next day or so I plan to play a bit more with dblatex to see if
> >> I can generate dvi results with it, and I am also ready to deal with
On 2013-08-24 16:50-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2013-08-21 16:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> In the next day or so I plan to play a bit more with dblatex to see if
>> I can generate dvi results with it, and I am also ready to deal with
>> any issues you find as well, but otherwise I believe
On 2013-08-21 16:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> In the next day or so I plan to play a bit more with dblatex to see if
> I can generate dvi results with it, and I am also ready to deal with
> any issues you find as well, but otherwise I believe I have completed
> this project.
Hi Andrew:
It turn
On 2013-08-20 10:41-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Hi Andrew:
>
> On 2013-08-19 20:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> Unless there is something you guys dislike about these results that
>> can be fixed in the short term, I am pretty much finished with it
>> although there are some obvious issues menti
Hi Andrew:
On 2013-08-19 20:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Unless there is something you guys dislike about these results that
> can be fixed in the short term, I am pretty much finished with it
> although there are some obvious issues mentioned in the commit message
> for revision 12490 that wil
On 2013-08-14 14:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> My next step is to deprecate the SGML backend tools to generate HTML,
> PDF, PostScript, and DVI in our build system. Instead of those I will
> introduce as default into our build system the xmlto alternatives for
> producing all of those backend fo
On 2013-08-14 10:03-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> My next step is to look at generating our info documentation using the
> xmlto approach.
That remark was due to two misconceptions on my part. In fact, xmlto
has no ability to generate info format, but it doesn't matter because
our present docbook2
On 2013-08-13 17:27-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Also, according to documentation available on the web, xml is almost
> completely (with just a few necessary exceptions) utf8 aware so I have tried
> the
> experiment of inserting the utf8 code for a gamma (e.g., "γ" if your
> mailer is utf8 aware)
On 2013-08-12 12:22-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> [Because SGML is dead] I have decided to try xmlto (starting later today) to
> see whether we can
> use it instead of those SGML [DocBook backend] tools.
To Andrew and Orion:
Sorry this is long, but I have achieved quite a few results since I
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