Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom Book

[C Y]

--- root <address@hidden> wrote:
> Actually the booklet program can join multiple pamphlet files. 
> It allows you to make chunks with a protocol and a URI:
> <<pamphlet://foo/bar/baz.pamphlet>>
> 
> I didn't use it because I wanted the book to be pure latex, at least
> until I was ready to do further integration work into the system
> which won't be for a while yet.

It's not really needed.  I think the reason I organized maximabook that
way was because there was a question of whether some parts should be
part of another book, and with discrete pieces and a control file all
someone had to do was tweak the control file and they could get a book
with just the parts they wanted in it. 

> The "current wierdness", as you say, is my attempt at graphics in
> latex which I've never tried before. The key annoyance is that 
> I've been unable to get two images on the same page. 

Opps :-).  Sorry - it was just that I was unfamiliar with that style of
figure insertion. I thought someone had tweaked it for publishing
purposes or some such :-).

There is an includegraphics flag to force an image to be in a certain
place relative to some text, IIRC.  If you need that I can try and dig
it up.

> I'll look at what you did and try to copy it. 

Well, most of what I did was basically hack and slash.  You might want
to check if that file works with the ps files - in theory it should,
but I didn't put it through the full run.
  
> I've downloaded both. The pdf looks good and the graphics are
> embedded properly. If I can fully understand what you (and BF and
> David) have been trying to tell me about pdfs I might start 
> autogenerating them in the doc directory.

It shouldn't be too hard, given the presence of gs on the system
building it.  I don't know what to do about the ones that give errors
though.
 
> I ran into the bounding box problem also. I did add bounding boxes to
> most of the images I used but it was tedious.

They might prove better than the autoconverted ones though.

CY


                
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