Re: Publicon problems converting sample document to LaTeX
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- Subject: [mg50433] Re: Publicon problems converting sample document to LaTeX
- From: andre at wolfram.com (Andre Kuzniarek)
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 03:35:34 -0400 (EDT)
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Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message news:<cgs25h$p$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > That's VERY helpful. And it points out several deviciencies in the > first non-beta release of Publicon: > > - inadequate documentation > > - no Palettes command on the File menu > > - applying a style sheet from the Format command does NOT open > the corresponding palette. > > So in 1.0, and without hacking, we would seem to be left with knowing > ahead of time the ultimate destination of a Publicon-created notebook > intended for export -- to LaTeX, etc. -- and jumping through the hoop of > first creating a New notebook of that kind (to bring up the appropriate > palette), then opening (or creating) the actual Publicon notebook we are > interested in exporting eventually. > > This design (?) does not seem too clearly thought out! Actually, this is precisely what the design is thought out to be, and is also why we set up the menus to help direct users towards making a document format choice before beginning. This is documented in slide three of the tour. It's a useful suggestion that we reinforce this idea throughout the documentation. Mismatching document formats/templates to their export target is a similar problem to that of exporting arbitrary Mathematica notebooks successfully: the structure has to be precise and recognized by our conversion algorithms. The idea of opening a palette after applying a style sheet is on our list of suggestions for future features, one of many user interface suggestions that have to be implemented in Mathematica before Publicon can exploit it. We have not yet completed setting up a LaTeX class for Publicon's default formats. We are forced to punt on parts of the current LaTeX output produced by the default sample (or anything composed in the default style), because there is no obvious LaTeX analog matching everything in our default format. A clearer indication of that fact would be useful, perhaps a warning in the status message. Documentation covering the customization of LaTeX output can be found here: http://documents.wolfram.com/publicon/UserGuide/AdvancedFeatures/CustomizingLaTeXOutput/index.html and the equivalent location in the help browser. We're working on a white paper to describe the process, stepping through a real world example, which should be a useful addition. AK ---------------------------------- Andre Kuzniarek Document Technology Manager Wolfram Research http://www.publicon.com