[Geany] ANN: Newsletter repo available

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 07.02.2011 10:36, schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 7 February 2011 19:39, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>> Am 07.02.2011 04:59, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>>> On 7 February 2011 14:31, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 7 February 2011 14:11, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>>>
>>>>> I get the following error when running Latex->DVI in Geany:
>>>>>
>>>>> ./newsletter_1.tex:24: LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic
>>>>> in img/geany.png (no BoundingBox)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Lex
>>>>>
>>>>> PS As I'm Latex illiterate,
>>>>
>>>> Sigh, generally illiterate as well :-D  I didn't notice Latex->PDF as
>>>> option two on the menu or that Frank said to make a PDF
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Lex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  all I can do is run it from Geany, the
>>>>> toolchain is only installed to support other tools that use it.
>>>>> Version info is:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7 February 2011 13:13, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi friends of Geany,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've started to work on first version of newsletter. Right now I did it
>>>>>> in LaTeX as it was the easiest from my point of view and to be honest I
>>>>>> didn't thought about something else until I've already started. Dominic
>>>>>> already mentioned to use ReST in future... We will see :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, My plan is to finish the first volume during the next so we
>>>>>> have some starting point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can check the current status at http://git.geany.org/newsletter/
>>>>>> and checkout using git with
>>>>>> git clone http://git.geany.org/newsletter
>>>
>>> Hi Frank,
>>>
>>> Nice start :-)
>>>
>>> A patch with my lunchtime contribution of some Englishifications
>>> attached.  Hope I havn't broken any markup.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. Will have a look onto it later today.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Frank
> 
> Ok, BTW congratulations on the neatest best laid out example of a
> Latex input file that I have ever seen, I could even read it.  Maybe I
> have only seen poor examples but most are hard to read and a real
> turnoff from using Latex.  But I still don't think I would be
> persuaded to write stuff in Latex, sorry.

Hehe, I was thinking about to build a sty for the newsletter which is
doing the header stuff for you. But in fact, the newsletter is far awy
from being good style LaTeX I guess ;)

I assume you did see plain TeX without the LaTeX macros which is even
for me a pain ...

Cheers,
Frank