From: Suraj Kurapati Date: 2008-11-24T04:57:57+09:00 Subject: Re: erbook 5.0.0 Diego Virasoro wrote: > On 23 Nov, 07:17, Suraj Kurapati wrote: >> erbook : write books and documents in eRuby >> =========================================== >> >> erbook is an extensible document processor that emits XHTML >> (web page), LaTeX (PDF), man (UNIX manual page), plain text, >> and any document format you can imagine from eRuby templates >> that allow scripting and dynamic content generation. >> > I am sorry, I don't want to sound argumentative but > when are you going to be able to emit LaTeX? It depends really, as I have other open source projects to tend to and ups-and-downs in motivation to deal with. ;-) > It's version 5.0 already, The version numbers do not indicate the completeness of the project, but rather the magnitude of change between versions[1]. > and since the beginning LaTeX support was supposed > to be there. In fact you even advertise it here. Good point. When I started this project, my intention was to describe what the completed project would be like in the description. I will update the project description to clarify what functionality is present now, and what is planned for the future. > However from your website I gather you haven't even started on LaTeX support. True. I just haven't had the developer's itch to be motivated enough to work on the LaTeX format yet. I hoped that, by explaining how erbook works[2] and providing examples of how to create a custom format[3] in the user manual, someone who had the developer's itch would begin the LaTeX format and contribute patches. > (to be honest I've been quite interested in this project, but so far > every version falls short of what I need) erbook is an open source project after all... please don't forget that I'm doing this in my free time, for the benefit of humankind. :-) Thanks for your consideration. [1]: http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/erbook/#Version-numbers [2]: http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/erbook/#Theory-of-operation [3]: http://snk.tuxfamily.org/lib/erbook/#HelloWorld -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.