[plt-scheme] Generating LaTeX source from Scheme

Please introduce and post your code in the Scheme Cookbook if it's not
too big :-)

http://schemecookbook.org/

Otherwise just introduce it there, but either way, consider uploading
it to PLaneT, the Scheme library repository:

http://planet.plt-scheme.org/


Daniel


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:47:00 -0500, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
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> >My question is, is there a way to generate LaTeX code in a manner
> >similar to generating HTML from X-expressions?
> >Many thanks for any ideas on how to do this - or other approaches to
> >generating HTML and PDF from the same PLT-Scheme code!
> 
> For a first course in Scheme I piloted this fall, I wanted to use
> Scheme to manage the Web page, as well as create presentation slides,
> handouts, and instructor notes from one source. I used Jim Bender's
> WebIt! system, defined my own S-expression syntax, and wrote macros to
> generate LaTeX, using three different "stylesheets" to control the
> transformations into the three different target formats. I didn't
> create HTML from the same source, but it wouldn't have been
> difficult. Starting from Noel Welsh's Scheme-UK example, each of the
> two projects (HTML and LaTeX) took me about a day of work and
> represented the first nontrivial Scheme programming I'd ever done. My
> code is pretty basic, but I'd be happy to share it with anyone who's
> interested.
> 
> You might also look at Skribe -- I wanted more control than it
> provides, but depending on your needs, it might be even easier to get
> something working. --PR
>