Archive for the ‘TeXML’ Category

TeXML is alive and well

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Due to a long period of inactivity in TeXML project, I’ve just been asked if the project is still supported. The answer is yes!

I use TeXML in production, it’s an important part of our new publishing process.

Why the project is inactive? Because no bugs are reported for the version 2.0.1, released on 19 July 2006 (today is 10 April 2008). If it works well, why bother to change anything?

TeXML paper and poster

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

A paper about TeXML and Consodoc is published in TUGboat 28:1, 2007: TeXML: Resurrecting TeX in the XML world. Also, the tools were presented as a poster at XML Prague 2007 conference: “XML to beautiful documents: TeXML and Consodoc“.

post-xmlprague notes

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I like Prague, it’s a very beautiful city. My contribution to XML Prague 2007:
* paper “Generative XPath
* presentation slides
* poster XML to beautiful documents, and how it looked like

poster proposal for XML Prague 2007

Monday, June 11th, 2007

In addition to my talk “Generative XPath” at XML Prague 2007, I decided to submit also a poster:

Title: XML to beautiful documents

Abstract: I’d like to present an alternative to XSL-FO. Using TeX to create PDF from XML is an old trick, but thanks to TeXML (an XML syntax for TeX) and Consodoc (a publishing server), the process is greately simplified and the produced documents are of high quality.

* http://getfo.org/texml/ — URL linking to a web page related to the poster.
* http://consodoc.com/

TeXML 2.0.1

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

I’ve released a minor update of TeXML. I found that combination of the command-line flags “–ascii” and “–encoding” didn’t work as desired. Now TeXML attempts to write a symbol in the form “^^XX” first, and only then consults the rewritting maps.

TeXML 2.0: what’s new

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Following the request in xml-dev:

What’s new/changed in 2.0?

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announce: TeXML 2.0

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

new TeXML docs

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Finally, I’ve uploaded the new TeXML documetation for the upcoming version 2.0: http://getfo.org/texml/. And it seems I’ve forgotten to announce the version 2.0.0.beta1.

trying to exhibit TeXML at the XTech developer’s corner

Monday, April 24th, 2006

As part of the exhibition at XTech 2006, the organizers are reserving an area in the exhibition space for independent developers to show their work (via). I’ve submitted TeXML.
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how to help TeXML

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

I’ve got a question:

I’m pretty interested in the TeXML project, and would consider helping in the development. Could you tell me how active the project is at the moment, and where you think it is heading / what remains to be done?

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making unicode pdf bookmarks with TeXML

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

I’ve added a new feature to TeXML. Content of the element “pdf” is converted to utf16be and encoded using escape-sequences. It is useful for making PDF strings, in particular, for PDF bookmark strings.

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MIFML

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

I’ve got feedback from Scott Prentice on recently released Tree Help plugin for FrameMaker. He has added the plugin to his leximation.com tools database. But it’s not important. MIFML — that is important. MIFML is an XML representation of a FrameMaker MIF file. Being the author of TeXML, an XML vocabulary for TeX, I’m sure that MIFML is a very good development.

TeXML: any encoding as ASCII

Monday, June 20th, 2005

The TeXML development version 1.27 brings new essential functionality: “–ascii” parameter. Now it’s possible to generate plain ASCII TeX files in a desired encoding. Non-ascii bytes are encoded as “^^XX“.

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the “tabbing” environment in LaTeX is considered harmful

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Some time ago I got a complaint on TeXML: Bug in TeXML. Unfortunately, it’s not a bug in TeXML, but it’s a big bug in the LaTeX design.

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essential error in the TeXML processor

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Shame on me. The TeXML processor had a bug in the core functionality.

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suggestions for thesis projects

Friday, April 29th, 2005

In comp.text.tex, Tristan Miller asked:

Can anyone recommend some small to medium-sized open problems which satisfy all of the four points below?

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TeXML on gmane.org

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

TeXML’s mailing list “Getfo-general” presents now on gmane.org.

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use of setup.py

Friday, March 25th, 2005

While communicating about making TeXML distribution archives, I’ve got examples of powerful use of “setup.py”.

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TeXML day

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

I wanted to work on generative XML, but I had to answer a letter from Paul Tremblay about new release of TeXML. Answering developed into working on TeXML.

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I’m not alone in TeXML development

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

After making a lot of contributions, Paul Tremblay have joined the TeXML project. Welcome!