From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2003-03-28T17:58:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Ruby in more formats?

In article <3E82B974.77791294@stud.ntnu.no>, Kent Dahl wrote:

: digibren wrote:
:> 
:> On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 12:08  PM, Xavier Noria wrote:
:> 
:> > Are the LaTeX sources, or a dvi, ps, or pdf version of "Programming
:> > Ruby"
:> > available somewhere?
:> 
:> as far as I know there is only the HTML or XML versions available
:> online.
:> http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/book.html
:> 
:> but at the link above the authors mention the book was originally
:> written in LaTeX so you might contact them with your query.
: 
: Try:
:   
:   cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@rubygarden.org:/usr/local/repository 
: login    
:   password:  anonymous
:   cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@rubygarden.org:/usr/local/repository  co
: ruby/ProgrammingRuby
: 
: which Dave pointed me to a long time ago when I asked a similar
: question.

Excellent!

Just as a matter of feedback, after changing the location of the interpreter
in the Makefile (latex/Makefile), and installing mkmf (ruby-dev in Debian)
and strscan, "make book" starts OK for a while and hangs after this

  0:     %&-line parsing enabled.
  0:    (./book.tex
  0:    panish, nohyphenation, loaded.
  0:    This is epsf.tex' v2.7k <10 July 1997>
  0:    ! LaTeX Error: Command \seealso already defined.
  0:                   Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
  0:    See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
  0:    Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
  0:     ...
  0:    l.216 }
  
several return key presses after that the compilation goes on.
  
Before that there are some non-fatal errors like these:

  -:4 Error in a ruby code fragment on line 886
  <<0>>"123 007b"
  <<1>>"01111011 ' 123'"
  -:3:in sprintf': unnumbered(1) mixed with numbered (ArgumentError)
          from -:3
	  
or this:
		    
  -:2 Error in a ruby code fragment on line 160
  -:2:in new': Connection refused - "connect(2)" (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
          from -:2

It seems when the bibliography is going to be included the process just
hangs. I removed the lines about that in the Makefile and finally got the
book (sort of) as PostScript.

Thank you!

-- fxn