[cl-typesetting-devel] cl-typesetting documentation

[Dmitriy Ivanov]

madnificent wrote on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:27:32 +0100 03:27:

| I'm new here.  I'm interested in cl-typesetting as a replacement for
| things I normally use LaTeX for, as I'd prefer to have a normal
| programming environment available. Is there some kind of generic
| document describing the construction of documents with cl-typesetting?
|  The examples are nice and all, but they don't really show the virtues
| of cl-typesetting's approach to creating documents.

I am afraid, no.

| Have there been efforts to create extra packages:
|  - Is there a package that makes cl-typesetting equivalent to the
| expressibility in LaTeX (things like the picture environment)?
|  - Is there an environment that helps you create slides (like beamer
| for LaTeX)?
| - Is there a package that mimics the standard LaTeX style
| for articles, reports, ...

I do not use LaTeX but I believe the first two are not tough to program with
CL-PDF/CL-TYPESETTING.

The idea of style taxonomy is under development in YstokHelp PDF module but
it is on a very preliminary stage.
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Sincerely,
Dmitriy Ivanov
lisp.ystok.ru