[cl-typesetting-devel] Practical Common Lisp Colophon

[Peter Seibel]

On Oct 4, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Marc Battyani wrote:

> "Peter Seibel" <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
>
>
>> As some of you may know I used cl-typesetting while working on
>> Practical Common Lisp to generate PDFs that I could use for my own
>> red-pen editing. (And which used to be on the web until the treeware
>> version of the book came out.) Anyway, I just put up a cleaned up
>> version of the code I used to parse my homebrew markup scheme as well
>> as code that can take the output of that parser and generate PDFs
>> using cl-typesitting and HTML using my own FOO library (the subject
>> of Chapters 30 and 31 of PCL.) Anyway, I thought some of you might be
>> interested in such a thing as it provides a piece of the typesetting
>> puzzle that cl-typesitting does not, out of the box, provide. You can
>> read about it at:
>>
>>    http://www.gigamonkeys.com/lisp/markup/docs.pdf
>>    http://www.gigamonkeys.com/lisp/markup/docs.html
>>
>
> Thanks Peter!
>
> You just forgot "html/" in the cl-pdf/cl-typesetting URLs. The  
> correct ones
> are:
> http://www.fractalconcept.com/asp/html/cl-pdf.html
> http://www.fractalconcept.com/asp/html/cl-typesetting.html

Whoops. My mistake. Should be fixed now.

>> both of which were generated from:
>>
>>    http://www.gigamonkeys.com/lisp/markup/docs.txt
>>
>> which is in my homebrew markup scheme. Brief installation
>> instructions are at the bottom of the documentation. If you try it,
>> let me know how it goes.
>>
>
> When I first announced cl-typesetting (2 years  ago), a lot of people
> expressed interest in making higher level syntaxes for cl- 
> typesetting. As
> far as I know you are the only one to date to have done and  
> published one.
> (On a related topic, there is also Klaus Weidner's XHTML renderer)

Heh. Well, at least we have one now.

-Peter

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