[ANN] Skribilo 0.9.4 released

2018-04-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
I am pleased to announce version 0.9.4 of Skribilo, a schemey document
authoring system.

  http://dl.sv.nongnu.org/releases/skribilo/skribilo-0.9.4.tar.gz
  http://dl.sv.nongnu.org/releases/skribilo/skribilo-0.9.4.tar.gz.sig

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Documentation is available at:

  https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/

Skribilo is a free document production tool that takes a structured
document representation as its input and renders that document in a
variety of output formats: HTML and Info for on-line browsing, and Lout,
LaTeX or ConTeXt for high-quality hard copies.

The input document can use Skribilo’s markup language to provide
information about the document’s structure, which is similar to HTML or
LaTeX and does not require expertise.  Alternatively, it can use a
simpler, “markup-less” format that borrows from Emacs’ outline mode and
from other conventions used in emails, Usenet, and text.

Skribilo can be thought of as a document programming framework for the
Scheme programming language that may be used to automate a variety of
document generation tasks.  It uses GNU Guile 2.x or 1.8 as the
underlying Scheme implementation.

Skribilo is a follow-up to Manuel Serrano’s and Érick Gallesio’s
Skribe (thank you!).  It is based on the code base of Skribe 1.2d
but differs in important ways.

Excerpt from the ‘NEWS’ file:

  * New in Skribilo 0.9.4

  ** Skribilo now runs on Guile 2.2 (in addition to 2.0 and 1.8)
  ** HTML engine: do not emit  and 

  It used to do so for titles and slide titles, which interfered with CSS
  customization in addition to being so 1990.

  ** New style for the HTML user manual, rely on CSS

  Items such as markup documentation are now rendered as CSS.  The whole
  web site and user manual style has been overhauled thanks to Amirouche
  Boubekki.

  ** Improved Lout style of the user manual
  ** acmproc: "References" chapter is now unnumbered
  ** New Friulian and Brazilian Portuguese translations

Thanks,
Ludovic.


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My Lisp Game Jam entry

2018-04-30 Thread Mike Gran
Hey y'all,

So there was this 10-day game jam for Lisp-like languages, and I put
together a trifling piece of interactive fiction based on an 1911 play
by William S Houghton.

The program itself is mostly the GTK3 toolkit for the GUI and Guile
for the scripting.

Keeping in mind that I wrote this in just a few days, you might find
it somewhat humourous to check out.  The game takes about 10 minutes
to play through.  It has not been widely tested across platforms.

There are Windows and GNU/Linux binaries at
https://spk121.itch.io/fancy-free

And the source is at
https://github.com/spk121/burro

The build script used to make the downloadable builds at
https://github.com/spk121/psychic-guacamole

For MinGW, this requires a patched version of Guile branched off of 2.2.3
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?=wip-mingw-guile-2.2

Regards,
Mike Gran