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Re: I'm looking for a project management system for Emacs
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: I'm looking for a project management system for Emacs |
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Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:14:02 +0200 |
Dnia 2014-03-30, o godz. 10:18:40
despen@verizon.net (Dan.Espen) napisaĆ(a):
> >> Nope, big Gnumake fan here.
> >> Any directory/project I do work in is going to have Makefile(s).
> >
> > Well, then I deduce that you are not a heavy LaTeX user. (Am I
> > right, dear Watson? ;) ) The problem is that the make model (using
> > timestamps) is a bit too simplistic for LaTeX: due to the way
> > references (& friends) work, the .aux file basically depends on
> > itself, but only if it contains a line saying
>
> Right. Latex is for printing isn't it?
Rather typesetting, usually to a pdf file (at least nowadays). Of
course, most of the time this means that something will eventually find
its way to a dead tree. (OTOH, there /are/ TeX-based engines which can
output HTML/XML, too.)
> I do a lot of documentation writing.
> But HTML/CSS (and Makefiles) are my weapon of choice.
This is a very good choice, /if/ you do not aim for high typographical
quality and/or atypical applications (typesetting of chemical
formulae, musical notation, dictionaries etc.).
Out of curiosity: are there /any/ HTML/CSS rendering solutions
(browsers, ebook readers etc.) which handle breaking paragraphs into
lines in an aesthetically satisfactory way (i.e., employ the
Knuth-Plass algorithm, for instance)?
> I have rules for content generation (like a TOC), uploading, thumbnail
> creation, packaging...
Do you aim for online browsing only, or for a printed version, too? If
the latter, how do you handle the problem of (potentially) unstable
forward page references?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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