Bug#144647: teTeX: Please help us with some context commands
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> i cc this to the context list, just in case someone will volunteer for
> helping you to get the man pages done
That was a Bcc? I couldn't find it in the headers of the mail I
received. What's the list's address?
Thank you for you comments, I will be working on them. Some immediate
remarks/questions:
>> > texfind: A kind of grep with graphical output
>>
>>I just discovered this, this looks very interesting. Unfortunately I
>>don't know much about perl, therefore I couldn't find out
>>
>>- whether it accepts any commandline options, besides "--font" for the
>> menu font
>>
>>- how the search and replace stuff really works. I guess it also uses
>> Perl regex syntax, and was able to do a replacement in the display
>> window - but how can I save it to the file?
>
> you can't; it's mostly meant for users who cannot find back something,
> say that i have this macro
>
> \itdoessomethingnice
>
> what one can do then is a recursive search and get an overview of
> locations then; it's a rather stupid thing -)
Then why can I replace something at all - this isn't really useful, is
it?
> there is also texshow.pl, which is provides some help about context
> commands;
Yes, this has a manpage yet.
> a similar system is available for emacs
But this isn't in teTeX, is it? I couldn't find any *.el files
>> > fdf2tan: Convert PDF formular data (FDF) into something (Con)TeX(t)
>> > can handle
>> > fdf2tex: Dito. For both: Ask Hans for the details
>
> these are used (often indirectly) to convert fdf files to something
> tex; you may as well omit them; fdf is the form data format that goes
> with pdf
You mean omit the manpage? It's policy in Debian that everything that's
in the path should have a manpage, simply because it's much easier to
find out that a program is useless (or useful) for oneself. It might be
as short as the sentence Tobias wrote, but then it should contain some
hint where more documentation can be found - which ConTeXt pdf would
that be for fdf2tan, fdf2tex and mptopdf?
> There are also some scripts written in ruby (like pstopdf); actually,
> in a short time there will be a series of tex-as-a-service kind of
> applications added to the distribution; is there any chance that ruby
> will be installed in the linux's by default (i assume that if debian
> does this the rest will follow).
What do you mean with "by default"? Of course there are ruby packages
available in Debian. I wouldn't like to make the whole tetex package
depend on ruby, but we could create a "tetex-ruby" package. Or, if you
say that these scripts belong to the ConTeXt core, we could make a
ConTeXt package that then also contains the ruby scripts and depends on
ruby. In both cases, these ConTeXt scripts would then run without
further user interference, because the ruby packages are installed
automatically.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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