<div dir="ltr">Thank-you Matthew<div><br></div><div>That helps.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dan </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Matthew Flatt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mflatt@cs.utah.edu" target="_blank">mflatt@cs.utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:56:11 +1100, Daniel Prager wrote:<br>
> How do I go about taking control of styling of Scribble's PDF output to do<br>
> simple things like font selection and encourage TeX to place figures near<br>
> text?<br>
><br>
> It looks like the hooks are there in or around<br>
> scribble/latex-properties<<a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/core.html?q=scri" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/core.html?q=scri</a><br>
> bble#%28mod-path._scribble%2Flatex-properties%29><br>
> but<br>
> it's been over 15 years since I've used TeX or LaTeX, so I'd appreciate an<br>
> example or two on where to start. [This would also be good in the docs.]<br>
<br>
See also section 7.10 in the docs, which tells you more about how<br>
styles are mapped to Latex macros and how you can supply ".tex" files<br>
to override the predefined macros:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/config.html?q=scribble" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/config.html?q=scribble</a><br>
<br>
But there's really not enough documented, so far. I have been working<br>
my way in the direction of documenting all the relevant Latex macros,<br>
but I was first working on documenting the CSS styles for HTML<br>
rendering, and I haven't gotten very far on that, either --- see<br>
<a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-October/059838.html" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-October/059838.html</a> .<br>
<br>
For now, you can look at "scribble.tex" to see what macros are defined<br>
and that you can redefine.<br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b>Daniel Prager</b></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Agile/Lean Coaching, Software Development and Leadership</div>
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