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| th1a | hi replaceafill. | 17:30 |
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| replaceafill | hey th1a | 17:30 |
| th1a | Here's an out of left field question from Myanmar(!). | 17:31 |
| replaceafill | :O | 17:31 |
| th1a | Could we do Latex report templates (so they could, you know, edit the Latex themselves). | 17:32 |
| replaceafill | no idea :( | 17:33 |
| replaceafill | manually maybe? | 17:33 |
| th1a | Hm... | 17:33 |
| th1a | ZPT has to be xml, right? | 17:33 |
| replaceafill | i mean, i don't know if there's reportlab support or anything | 17:33 |
| replaceafill | yes | 17:33 |
| th1a | Ah... oh... | 17:33 |
| replaceafill | but "manully" you can generate JS or CSS | 17:34 |
| replaceafill | not pretty | 17:34 |
| replaceafill | but it works | 17:34 |
| th1a | Just with python. | 17:34 |
| th1a | String replacement or whatever. | 17:34 |
| replaceafill | well, using zpt syntax | 17:34 |
| replaceafill | yeah | 17:34 |
| th1a | https://pypi.python.org/pypi/latex | 17:35 |
| replaceafill | we could search for a native latex python package | 17:35 |
| replaceafill | yeah | 17:35 |
| th1a | (I'm not taking this entirely seriously by the way) | 17:36 |
| replaceafill | but either it'll be very custom (specific for the client) | 17:36 |
| replaceafill | or we need to find how to plug it in the report system | 17:37 |
| th1a | Hm. | 17:37 |
| th1a | Well, ok, so assuming they would start by giving us the Latex. | 17:38 |
| th1a | We could use the latex package to just plug in the right bits. | 17:38 |
| th1a | (the variables) | 17:38 |
| replaceafill | yeah | 17:38 |
| th1a | I mean, it wouldn't literally be quicker the first time. | 17:38 |
| replaceafill | similar to how the final rml is generated | 17:38 |
| replaceafill | you have a "document" part | 17:38 |
| replaceafill | stylesheets | 17:38 |
| replaceafill | template, etc | 17:39 |
| replaceafill | lots of viewlets and managers | 17:39 |
| replaceafill | latex docs have structure right? | 17:39 |
| replaceafill | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure#Global_structure | 17:39 |
| replaceafill | preamble :O | 17:39 |
| replaceafill | fancy :) | 17:40 |
| th1a | Hm. | 17:40 |
| th1a | This is actually a little weirdly appealing to me now that I think about it. | 17:40 |
| replaceafill | :/ | 17:40 |
| th1a | In theory it is possible -- **POSSIBLE** -- to use a Latex GUI editor to do the layout. | 17:40 |
| replaceafill | and don't tell jelkner and company if you ever implement this :D | 17:41 |
| th1a | That was a pain in the ass 15 years ago. | 17:41 |
| th1a | But maybe it works better now! | 17:41 |
| th1a | MAYBE! | 17:41 |
| replaceafill | emacs ftw | 17:41 |
| replaceafill | all my latex was manually back in the day | 17:41 |
| replaceafill | i wrote physics exams with equations in latex | 17:42 |
| th1a | I mean, it occurs to me that the reason I can't/don't do our report layout now is the lack of a gui. | 17:43 |
| th1a | I mean, I *could*, but I guess the whole process seems so intertwined. | 17:44 |
| replaceafill | you mean a gui like libreoffice writer? | 17:44 |
| replaceafill | that converts to rml, latex, etc? | 17:44 |
| th1a | Well, also, in ZPT there are so many macros, etc. | 17:44 |
| replaceafill | well, yeah, but that's the flexibility strenght in it | 17:44 |
| th1a | Just exporting a big XML file would not even be that useful to you. | 17:45 |
| th1a | Yes. | 17:45 |
| th1a | I mean, we haven't been overlooking something *obvious* all these years. | 17:45 |
| th1a | But I wonder if I could lay out report cards and transcripts in Latex. | 17:46 |
| th1a | OK, anyhow. | 17:47 |
| th1a | I'll look at that. ;-) | 17:47 |
| replaceafill | kk | 17:48 |
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