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Hi,

I downloaded the zip and tried to build the prgram with:

  make -f BSDMakefile

However, it did not build.  Please could you include some instructions on how to build and run the program, and maybe also a small example file that it will convert?

Thanks,

J

Hi,

this is a plugin for the libsoldout program. I will check this task later on.

Regards, Julian 

Sorry, the zip only contains the files that I changed from those of libsoldout.

Sorry, the changes that I mentioned are that I created mkd2latex.c and I added tgat it to the makefiles.

Whoops. "tgat" is supposed to be "that", and it's supposed to go before "added".

Hi,

actually, this is very nice. I didn't expect the task to be solved that fast and that nice!

There are just a few quirks:

• Please document somewhere which packages are needed (e.g. hyperref must be included in the document)


• Some characters must be escaped. I just tried a random document from the NetBSD wiki and there were several underscores and dollar signs which had to be escaped manually (I think this was inside a texttt environment).

Regards, Julian 

Hi,

just one more task that would be nice: Contact the author of libsoldout with a link to this work, you can find her e-mail address and gpg key here:

    http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x69277CC1

I think she will be glad to see more projects spawning from her own one.

If you don't want to do so, but you permit others to use your code (I suppose so after the licence I read), I can do this as well. 

Regards, Julian 

Thanks.

How would you like me to document which packages are needed? I'm not sure where they shoud be documented.

*should

Also, I do not want to contact her. I am a lowly student!

Hi,

if you do not want to contact her, that's not a problem. She will be poked to this program anyway.

If you don't need more than hyperref, you don't have to care for the documentation. Except for escaping invalid characters in environments as underscores and dollar signs, you're fine with your written program.

Regards, Julian 

I need to require the graphicx package for images!

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It's a little difficult for me to tell what rendering function's calling what — so that I don't escape characters multiple times — (and what LaTeX commands require escaping and what don't), but hopefully this new revision (named "mkd2latex escapier.zip") solves the problems of \texttt not being escaped.

Thanks!

Hi,

Ok, just two final things, then this task is done: 

• please escape only in normal_text, code_block and code_span.

• please create hooks for  building a whole latex document. The first to NULLs in the to_latex structure are for callbacks used for beginning and ending the document. This should be sufficient for the beginning:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

and for the ending:

\end{document}

I contacted the original author about your plugin, and she agrees that it could be included in the official libsoldout repository. You won't have to maintain it, she would do so, but of course you could stay in touch with her if you're interested in the further development.

Though you might have spent much effort in this single task, it is a greatly appreciated one.

Regards, Julian 

Hi,

I've submitted a new version with the changes you requested.

Thanks for your help!

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My removal of my claim on this task was accidental. Sorry about that.

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Ok, there are two minor quirks (there's no trailing newline, and escapes are still in the code part, though I think I asked for this). Anyway, you don't have to care for this anymore.

Thank you very much for this great work! We have several other Latex, Markdown and coding related tasks for NetBSD. If you are interested in this, you can look at these, maybe there's another one you want to claim. 

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We just created this task: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8015211

Maybe you want to have a look? It's the same as this one. Only this time, you have to write a markdown to terminal converter. This means you have to read a bit into curses and then use the bold, underline, italic characters in curses, and indentation.