> Thank you. But it's just a demo. Well, it's certainly an impressive demo / proof-of-concept!
Based on what you've said I'll delve a bit further. If I can alter the margins and integrate pages with images (say programatically rather using #quad), even that would be helpful. I'll have a tinker and see what I can find: it's great stuff. Dan On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Prager <daniel.a.pra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm having a play with your quad type-setting library, which looks very >> promising as a way to generate typeset pdfs from Racket without invoking >> LaTeX. >> > > > >> Quick questions (which may also prompt a light update to the docs): >> >> - How do I require modules? @(require ...) gives an error >> - How do I include graphics (e.g. diagrams) generated from >> 2htdp/image or pict? >> - How do I change the margins? >> - How do I programatically generate a pdf (rather than pressing one >> of the buttons) >> - How do I set the number of columns? >> >> > Thank you. But it's just a demo. So I'm afraid there are no answers to > these questions. > > To be worthwhile, Quad needs a better PDF renderer (i.e., not just the > routines in `racket/draw`). Malcolm Still has made a start on this [1] but > he has returned to school. Someone else will have to pick it up from there. > > You can also use Pollen as a programmable interface to LaTeX. [2] Joel > Dueck has used Pollen+LaTeX to generate a website and PDF paperback from > the same source files, with images and a custom multi-column design. [3] He > documented this process. [4] Further questions can go to the Pollen mailing > list. [5] > > > [1] https://github.com/malcolmstill/racket-pdf > > [2] > http://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/fourth-tutorial.html#%28part._.Adding_support_for_.La.Te.X_output%29 > > [3] http://tilde.club/~joeld/secretary/posts/web-books.html > > [4] https://github.com/otherjoel/try-pollen > > [5] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pollenpub > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
