Quoth Prabhakar Ragde: > Faced with the same decision a few weeks ago, I first decided, after > learning what I could do with Scribble, to write everything in Scribble > and render through LaTeX. ... I'd much rather write Scribble than > LaTeX. --PR
Quoth Robby Findler: > So I think your best bet is to just pick a small piece and try to redo > that part in scribble and see how that works out. ARGH. I *knew* this was the response I would get, but I thought I'd give y'all the benefit of the doubt. The reasons I want to use Scribble snippets inside a broader LaTeX context is that I have a substantial part of this document already written, and a huge installed base of LaTeX documents that include a large amount of custom definitions. I do have time during this project to learn a bit of Scribble; I do not have time during this project to learn all of Scribble and convert all my .cls files into their nearest Scribble equivalents. It seems likely that at some point I might have wanted to shift over to writing Scribble from scratch. I may yet do that. But it's going to be a lot harder to make that decision if I can't first dip in my toe and make it work with my existing installed base. It's especially hard if I'm not yet sure Scribble can do everything I want it to and thus might be required to abandon the effort half-done. And it's not such a strange request (like "why can't Scribble work with MS Word" would be), since LaTeX is *precisely what Scribble generates*. I certainly don't expect that a feature be implemented just because I want it, and even good features may take a while due to being low priority or whatever. And there may well be some technical impediment to just creating a scribble.sty and working from there that I (a newcomer to the scene) can't see yet. But even if you're attempting evangelism (and perhaps especially then), the correct answer to "How do I X" should in general not be "You shouldn't even want to X, you should Y instead". This response feels a lot like the rightly-derided responses of "install linux!" whenever anyone asked "how to I get Windows to..." on certain message boards a few years back: unhelpful and annoying. So verbatim it is, I guess. -- -=-Don Blaheta-=-dblah...@monm.edu-=-=-<http://www.monmsci.net/~dblaheta/>-=- "Humorous and detailed stories that people aren't bound to take seriously make for *excellent* smalltalk. If you can hide the fact that you're just retelling an old X-Files episode, even better." --Jonathan Prykop _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
