From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2011-08-18T16:50:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Papyrus 0.0.1 released


On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Josh Cheek wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Quintus <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
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>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I'm pleased to announce the very first release of Papyrus, a RDoc plugin
>> for generating PDF files from your sourcecode's documentation.
>> 
>> == Installation
>> 
>> It's available via RubyGems. Do
>> 
>> # gem install papyrus
>> 
>> to get it.
>> 
>> == Usage
>> 
>> You can use it the same way as any other RDoc generator plugin, namely
>> 
>> $ rdoc -f papyrus YOURFILESHERE
>> 
>> You can also use it in Rake tasks if you want;
>> 
>> gem "rdoc" #Note you need the gem!
>> require "rdoc/task"
>> RDoc::Task.new do |t|
>> t.generator = "papyrus"
>> #...
>> end
>> 
>> == Websites
>> 
>> * Project page: http://redmine.pegasus-alpha.eu/projects/papyrus
>> (it's a bit spare at the moment, but forgive me, I just completed
>> coding ;-))
>> * Issue tracker: http://redmine.pegasus-alpha.eu/projects/papyrus/issues
>> 
>> 
>> == License
>> 
>> It's licensed under the GPLv2, see COPYING in the source for more
>> information.
>> 
>> == Thanks
>> 
>> Thanks to Eric Hodel's invaluable help--without him, Papyrus wouldn't
>> have made it to this release.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Have fun!
>> 
>> Valete,
>> Marvin
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> 
> "sh: pdflatex: command not found
> Invoking pdflatex failed with exitstatus 127!"
> 
> I'm not sure how to get this. I tried `brew install tex` and it sent me to
> http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/ which is apparently 1.8GB zipped. Too much
> commitment for me, I just want to try it out.

Tex is a typesetting system, so it comes with a lot of fonts, styles, etc. 
Hence the bit download for the full distribution. Basically its all packages
that were ever accepted into the tex package system.

The Tex community values "write once, compile anywhere, even 10 years in the
future", so they ensure that the main distributions hold everything.

> Then I tried dling and installing pdftex (
> http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/) per the man page's suggestion (
> http://man.cx/pdflatex#heading9) which I thought worked, but apparently not
> since there is no pdflatex in my path still, nor anywhere within the dir I
> constructed it in, nor within the original source dirs.

Thats too basic, as it only includes the typesetting system and nothing else :).
You would not want to download all the packages on your own :).

> I feel like I might be missing something obvious, what am I doing wrong?


Yes:

http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/morepackages.html

Has a "BasicTex" package for 69MB. I don't know whether papyrus uses extra-fancy stuff, but
from a short glance it doesn't. As the page correctly says: "The package is remarkably capable.", 
so it should work.

If it doesn't work with BasicTex, I recommend writing a bug report to the author :).

Regards,
Florian

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