[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Anansi 0.4.2 (literate programming pre-processor)

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 01:05:06PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:36:44PM -0800, John Millikin wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:39, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>>> 1. What to call files?  I understand (C)WEB suggests using .w, and
>>> that noweb uses .nw, what should I call anansi files?
>> 
>> I usually use .anansi, but it doesn't matter. You can use whatever
>> extensions you like, or even none at all.
> 
> I'll stick to .anansi as well then, it's rather descriptive :-)
> 
>>> 2. Combining anansi and pandoc works quite well for HTML, but it
>>> fails miserably when trying to use the generated LaTeX:
>>>
>>>    > markdown2pdf: ! LaTeX Error: Command \guillemotleft
>>>      unavailable in encoding OT1.
>>>
>>>    Is there any good way to get around that?
>> 
>> The LaTeX loom is designed to output basic markup that can be turned
>> into a PDF with minimum fuss. It probably won't work as-is for more
>> advanced cases, such as when a user wants to use custom templates, or
>> has to inter-operate with pseudo-LaTeX parsers like Pandoc.
> 
> I was probably unclear, I *really* would like to use the markdown loom
> and then pass the weave through pandoc to be able to create html/latex
> from the same source.  So I suspect the problem I ran into is more
> related to pandoc than anansi, but I was hoping that someone among the
> anansi users had run into and solved it already :-)

I just thought I'd mention that I've solved this particular issue now.
All that was needed was to make sure that

    \usepackage{aeguill}

was added to the generated LaTeX.  Personally I did that by putting
the line in a file and then use the -H argument to `markdown2pdf`
which pandoc provides.

/M

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