> From: Olin Shivers <shivers@clark.lcs.mit.edu>
> Date: Tue Aug 1, 2:01am
>
> I'd like to read the scsh-manual on my ASCII terminal. For some reason,
> I
> cannot "latex" the source in the scsh-manual directory -- there
> seems to either be some files missing or the files must be latex'ed in a
> certain order.
>
> Yep, it uses a lot of special support style files. Maybe we'll include them
> in the next release. The point was more to have the LaTeX text available
> than to really support re-LaTeXing the thing.
>
> Is there any way to do this or am I up sh*t creek?
>
> From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>
> Date: Tue Aug 1, 2:25am
>
> | There's just no way to get LaTeX to generate reasonable ASCII text.
> | I originally tried to write the manual in Texinfo, but it is such a
> horrible
> | system I gave up.
>
> How about using troff?
>
> From: Olin Shivers <shivers@clark.lcs.mit.edu>
> Date: Tue Aug 1, 2:27am
>
> I don't know troff, and I don't want to learn.
>
> We do try to maintain a cheat-sheet synopsis of the procedures in ASCII
> form. You might also post to the Scheme netnews groups asking if any kind
> soul has considered porting the manual to HTML or info format. Or you
> could do it yourself, and be a hero.
>
> If anyone wants to do this, I'll leak them an advance copy of the 0.4 manual.
> -Olin
I actually printed out the postscript version and it's weird and screwed up
on the printer. I guess, at the very least, I'll have to learn LaTeX so
I can read the "source code" of the documentation.
I sure would appreciate having the missing style files in the next release.
I've been searching all over for the style files w/o success.
Thanks.
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