Re: string parsing/preparation for latex

2005-11-08 Thread klaus schilling
Jon Wilson writes: > > (scheme->LaTeX (+ 7 (/ 18 5))) > => > "7 + \frac{18}{5}" shouldn't the argument be quoted? otherwise it will be evaluated straight to 10.6 (or whatever style of representation has been chosen for rationals, the unstable versions for guile seem to provide for more pos

Re: string parsing/preparation for latex

2005-11-08 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi David, If this LaTeX + guile stuff goes well, might you consider releasing it separately from guile-gnome? I think it could be very useful in its own right. Is it intended to parse LaTeX, or to create LaTeX? If create, from what? If parse, for what purpose? Sorry for all the questions. I'v

Re: new slib and guile 1.6.7

2005-11-08 Thread Rob Browning
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have any, but note that we need to have > > (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) > > make adequate symbols visible in the using module. Given that > guile.init has code to use define-public most of the time, putting the > load insidde the module definition

Re: new slib and guile 1.6.7

2005-11-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ ./pre-inst-guile > guile> (load-from-path "slib/guile.init") > guile> (require 'new-catalog) > guile> (require 'fft) > guile> fft > # > guile> > > At least from this admittedly trivial test, ignoring ice-9/slib.scm > and using the slib g

Re: string parsing/preparation for latex

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Compall
David Pirotte writes: > but that is not possible, because the string (here simulated) > is a user typed in string (through a gtk interface > programmed in guile-gnome) upon which I have no control. > I precisly wish to parse it to create a .tex file later > processed by latex ... If you expe

Re: string parsing/preparation for latex

2005-11-08 Thread Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro
Em Ter, 2005-11-08 às 15:52 +0100, David Pirotte escreveu: > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:49:01 -0200 > "Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 14:53 +0100, David Pirotte escreveu: > > > does anyone understands why this does not return the expected result

Re: string parsing/preparation for latex

2005-11-08 Thread David Pirotte
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:34:16 -0600 Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > This is interesting... Just for the sake of my curiousity, could you > describe what project this is for? Hi John, I'm writing a little peace of software in guile-gnome, which interface with postgres for the

Re: string parsing/preparation for latex

2005-11-08 Thread David Pirotte
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:49:01 -0200 "Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 14:53 +0100, David Pirotte escreveu: > > does anyone understands why this does not return the expected result > > > > (define *texu/reserved-characters* > > ;; % \ { }

Re: Modified load-path proposal

2005-11-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:22:31 + > both interpretations are fine. Yes, but which one did you mean? It seems to me that they have opposite implications. i didn't have any one specific idea in mind. that there are conflicting implications

Re: new slib and guile 1.6.7

2005-11-08 Thread Rob Browning
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the code snippet from ice-9/slib.scm, with use of load that > respects the prefix (NetBSD/pkgsrc puts things in /usr/pkg, not /usr). > > (define-module (ice-9 slib) > :export (slib:load > implementation-vicinity > library-vicinit