Re: [racket] html -> pdf?

2012-09-25 Thread Carson Chittom
Carson Chittom writes: > Jordan Schatz writes: > >> Is anyone aware of a way to take arbitrary html pages and turn them into >> pdfs? >> >> At the moment it looks like I would need to write Racket bindings for a html >> rendering engine (WebKit or Gecko), re

Re: [racket] html -> pdf?

2012-09-25 Thread Carson Chittom
Jordan Schatz writes: > Is anyone aware of a way to take arbitrary html pages and turn them into pdfs? > > At the moment it looks like I would need to write Racket bindings for a html > rendering engine (WebKit or Gecko), render the page, capture the output as a > bitmap and embed it in a PDF...

Re: [racket] FW: Racket documentation for web development is just awful!

2011-12-20 Thread Carson Chittom
Racket Noob writes: > Of course I care! > I love racket and deeply respect all of you. But, I'm afraid that if > you go this way, Racket remain just another never used "academic" > language. If you genuinely believe that, then you have it in your power to fix things: *do* things in Racket rath

Re: [racket] Building Racket 5.2 dumps core on OpenBSD

2011-11-15 Thread Carson Chittom
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Carson Chittom wrote: > That makes sense.  I'm trying at the moment to fiddle with the ulimit > settings to see if I can get it to compile without error (leak---if that > is indeed the issue---and all).  If I can make it work I'll post back >

Re: [racket] article about Racket

2011-11-11 Thread Carson Chittom
Shriram Krishnamurthi writes: > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896 > > If you participate in a social media site, you may want to post or > upvote it (it's already on Hacker News). Somebody should tell ACM to reorder the footnotes, since they go (as referenced in the text, 3, 1, 2. --

Re: [racket] Building Racket 5.2 dumps core on OpenBSD

2011-11-11 Thread Carson Chittom
Matthew Flatt writes: > At Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:05:09 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> I just tried a build on OpenBSD 5.0 within VirtualBox, and it went ok. > > It appears that my build "succeeded" only because I forgot to install > libcairo, so that `racket/draw' didn't work for building certain >

[racket] Building Racket 5.2 dumps core on OpenBSD

2011-11-10 Thread Carson Chittom
Building Racket 5.2 on OpenBSD 5.0 (amd64) dumps core with the following error. I don't know enough to debug it, but I'll be glad to provide any requested information. I don't know about other iterations of the Racket 5.x series, but 5.1.2 and 5.1.3 built and worked perfectly. raco setup: runnin

Re: [racket] Problem with macro

2011-08-12 Thread Carson Chittom
Neil Van Dyke writes: > (Pardon the writing in enumerations, but someone erroneously put caf > coffee in the decaf coffee carafe.) Say *that* ten times fast. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

[racket] OpenBSD port for Racket

2011-08-09 Thread Carson Chittom
I don't like having things on my system that aren't in the package manager, so I've created a very basic, very unofficial, port for the OpenBSD ports tree. (I don't know anything about programming, but I can read directions.) I have nothing to test it on except my desktop, so it may well be broke