From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-06-10T05:43:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Project idea: Ruby Press

I started something like that that was basically a Ruby DSL to Docbook
using Builder + convenience methods.  I called it Rockbook...

I think I still have the code around somewhere.

--Jeremy

On 6/8/07, Victor Zverok Shepelev <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> wrote:
> It seems to be cool idea if somebody with strong experience of printing and
> press would code his experience in Ruby, to have pretty DSL for making
> "book-like" and "newspaper-like" printing.
>
> I have in mind something like
>
> my_book = book "My Book" do
>   page_size 'A4'
>   units 'cm'
>   type :brochure
>
>   section "Title Page" do
>     margin 0
>     columns 1
>
>     section "Title" do
>       padding :top => 20
>       font "Lucida", "36pt"
>       align :center
>     end
>
>     section "Author" do
>       font "Times New Roman", "20pt"
>       align :right
>     end
>   end
>
>   section "Plain Pages" do
>     margin [1, 1, 0.5, 0.5]
>
>     font 'Georgia', '12pt'
>
>     columns 2, :space => 0.5
>
>     header do
>       text_template self.number
>       text_align :right
>     end
>     #hm... lots of other cool stuff?
>   end
> end
>
> my_book.render_pdf "mybook.pdf" {
>   "Title Page" => {
>     "Title" => "It's my book!",
>     "Author" => "It's me"
>   },
>
>   "Plain Pages" => File.read("mybook.txt")
> }
>
>
> It can all look strange (as well as my English)...
>
> The main idea is:
> * DSL, which would be natural for press (headers and footers, columns, and
> other things, if you know...)
> * Under it, press-print experience coded accurately.
> * Special efforts for correct images and tables printing...
>
> What do you think? Am I reinventing TeX?
>
> V.
>
>
>


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