[racket] How to take control of Scribble (or similar)

Thank-you Matthew

That helps.

I suppose an additional approach is to copy and then modify an existing
sub-language like scribble/report (or whatever) to effectively create a new
type of output template.

On the documentation front, I wonder whether some instructions to help
users interested in contributing documentation updates (especially
examples) as we figure things out might help us to help.


Dan


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:56:11 +1100, Daniel Prager wrote:
> > How do I go about taking control of styling of Scribble's PDF output to
> do
> > simple things like font selection and encourage TeX to place figures near
> > text?
> >
> > It looks like the hooks are there in or around
> > scribble/latex-properties<
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/core.html?q=scri
> > bble#%28mod-path._scribble%2Flatex-properties%29>
> > but
> > it's been over 15 years since I've used TeX or LaTeX, so I'd appreciate
> an
> > example or two on where to start.  [This would also be good in the docs.]
>
> See also section 7.10 in the docs, which tells you more about how
> styles are mapped to Latex macros and how you can supply ".tex" files
> to override the predefined macros:
>
>   http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/config.html?q=scribble
>
> But there's really not enough documented, so far. I have been working
> my way in the direction of documenting all the relevant Latex macros,
> but I was first working on documenting the CSS styles for HTML
> rendering, and I haven't gotten very far on that, either --- see
> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-October/059838.html .
>
> For now, you can look at "scribble.tex" to see what macros are defined
> and that you can redefine.
>
>
>
>


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