[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hxournal-0.5.0.0 - A pen notetaking program written in haskell

[Ian-Woo Kim]

To anyone who is interested,

I just uploaded a new release of hxournal 0.6 which has pdf annotation
functionality. (It's still at very early stage now though. You can
think this as a tech preview release)

The following is the message I posted on hxournal google group. (
http://groups.google.com/group/hxournal )
All small release announcements will be posted there.

Thanks.

best,
IW

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Dear hxournal Users,
I uploaded the new version of hxournal with pdf annotation
functionality to hackage so that one can easily test the new version.
The new version is accompanied with new releases of xournal-render and
xournal-parser and with new package xournal-types and xournal-builder,
which are data type declaration package for xournal and xournal file
constructing library using blaze-builder.
For installation, you just need to type
> cabal install hxournal

This hxournal version needs poppler-0.12.* which is a part of gtk2hs.
I found that the installation of poppler package is a little difficult
in some system.  So you may encounter some problem in installation.
Later, I will make a compilation option to choose whether one will use
poppler or not.

Happy hxournaling then!

best regards,
Ian-Woo Kim


On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Ivan Perez
<ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks :)
>
> It's working now. I tried it with XInput and without it. Lines seem
> smoother when XInput is activated.
>
> On 16 December 2011 11:33, Ian-Woo Kim <ianwookim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> I just uploaded hxournal-0.5.1 which is implemented with .hxournal
>> config file, "Use X Input" menu enabled, and a fix for compilation
>> problem of gdkconfig.h by Custom build during cabal configure using
>> "pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0"
>>
>> Please try the new version by
>>> cabal update
>>> cabal install hxournal
>>
>> I have made a google group of hxournal : hxournal at googlegroups.com
>> Any issues on hxournal will be welcome and discussed there.
>>
>> Currently, I branched 0.5.1 version for stabilization and now started
>> to focus on pdf background rendering (which is most relevant for my
>> purpose)  in the master branch.
>>
>> Thank you for your interest and reports.
>> best,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> When I attempt to build on Ubuntu, I get:
>>>
>>> ezyang at javelin:~$ cabal install hxournal
>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>> Configuring hxournal-0.5.0.0...
>>> Preprocessing library hxournal-0.5.0.0...
>>> In file included from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkscreen.h:32:0,
>>>                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:31,
>>>                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
>>>                 from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
>>>                 from Device.hsc:3:
>>> /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdktypes.h:55:23: fatal error: gdkconfig.h: No such file or directory
>>> compilation terminated.
>>> compiling dist/build/Application/HXournal/Device_hsc_make.c failed (exit code 1)
>>> command was: /usr/bin/gcc -c dist/build/Application/HXournal/Device_hsc_make.c -o dist/build/Application/HXournal/Device_hsc_make.o -fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-style=both,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries,--as-needed -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=700 -Dlinux_BUILD_OS -Dlinux_HOST_OS -Di386_BUILD_ARCH -Di386_HOST_ARCH -Icsrc -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/process-1.0.1.5/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/directory-1.1.0.0/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/old-time-1.0.0.6/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/unix-2.4.2.0/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/time-1.2.0.3/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/bytestring-0.9.1.10/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/base-4.3.1.0/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/include -I/usr/lib/ghc-7.0.3/include/
>>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>>> hxournal-0.5.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>
>>> This may be of interest:
>>>
>>> ezyang at javelin:~$ locate gdkconfig.h
>>> /home/ezyang/Dev/gtk+/gdk/gdkconfig.h.win32
>>> /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdkconfig.h
>>> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include/gdkconfig.h
>>>
>>> Edward
>>>
>>> Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Mon Dec 12 20:10:19 -0500 2011:
>>>> Very fancy! I am a big fan of Xournal, so I will have to take this for a spin.
>>>>
>>>> Edward
>>>>
>>>> Excerpts from Ian-Woo Kim's message of Mon Dec 12 06:56:09 -0500 2011:
>>>> > Hi, everyone,
>>>> >
>>>> > I am very pleased to announce a pen notetaking program: hxournal,
>>>> > which is written entirely in haskell using gtk2hs.
>>>> >
>>>> > I uploaded the package on hackage. This program accompanies with
>>>> > two library packages, xournal-parser and xournal-render for parsing
>>>> > and rendering xournal format file.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hxournal
>>>> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xournal-parser
>>>> > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xournal-render
>>>> >
>>>> > Installing hxournal should be very simple:
>>>> > > cabal update
>>>> > > cabal install hxournal
>>>> >
>>>> > hxournal can be currently regarded as a clone of xournal, which is a
>>>> > notetaking program developed in C. (See
>>>> > http://xournal.sourceforge.net)
>>>> >
>>>> > As xournal, hxournal can take wacom tablet X11 input in subpixel unit
>>>> > so that it can result in very smooth notetaking experience.
>>>> >
>>>> > Currently, basic pen operations and eraser operations, file open/save
>>>> > operations, rectangular selection, cut/copy/paste operations have been
>>>> > implemented. So the application is semi-usable. The file format is
>>>> > the same as xournal but gunzipped. So to view/edit xoj files generated
>>>> > from xournal, just gunzip the xoj files and read them in hxournal.
>>>> > Gunzipped xoj files generated from hxournal are readable in xournal
>>>> > program.
>>>> >
>>>> > One NEW special feature of hxournal compared with xournal:
>>>> > This program can make a split view (horizontal and vertical and
>>>> > arbitrary combination of them) of the same document similarly to emacs
>>>> > buffers and windows. Please try Horizontal/Vertical Split in View menu
>>>> > of the program. This will be convenient when notetaking a long
>>>> > document.
>>>> >
>>>> > The git repository is located at https://www.github.com/wavewave/hxournal
>>>> > The program web page and development web/wiki pages will be announced
>>>> > soon (it will be linked from package webpage on hackage anyway) and
>>>> > the detailed manual will be presented there.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you for your interest.
>>>> > Enjoy haskell notetaking!
>>>> >
>>>> > Ian-Woo Kim
>>>> >