Re: documentation of presentation modules?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:59 PM 5/11/01 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>1) is there any documentation about the presentation styles?

in the styles and there is also a doc at our site [if i'm right]

>2) what use is the %D stuff in all the modules? Is there any way 
>to get the documentation out of these modules?

texexec --modu --pdf somefile

will give you an annotated source [some modules have quite detailed
examples].  

>3) (new beta) using it without extended mode (etex) did not seem 
>to work because of some \ifcsname uses. don't ask me where, I 
>have to look it up again.

i already repaired that but cannot upload a new beta because i'm in the
middle of merging new otr code into the core [and splitting main-*.tex
files in the process. This means that the next release will be a major
update: additional encoding support, a whole new font layer [which permits
quick mixing of any combinations of typefaces plus more] and a new
(additional) column mechanism to start with. As a bonus that versions runs
upto 40% faster on complicated documents [with backgrounds, menus and
alike] and i expect much more speed gain when i clean up the still messy
old modules [all relatively new stuff is optimized to the max already]. Ah,
and there will also be more math support (among which mixed math char
sets).   

>4) how do I use the hz-like stretching/shrinking with the 'new' font 
>mechanism?

not yet there, but will come

>5) why are there so many encodings around :-> ?

because we love accents and funny characters, but for most people texnansi
or ec will do. 

Hans
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