From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: typeset rss feed
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:14:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1204201708460.30888@qrpragenyvmrq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F91C3FF.6010802@jhnet.nl>
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Jelle Huisman wrote:
> I'd like to typeset an RSS feed
I was also recently thinking along these lines (set a cron job to typeset
RSS feed into pdf and email to kindle). So, please release your code
once you are done.
> and I was wondering whether I could
> instruct ConTeXt to fetch the contents of a url like:
> http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
Suppose you write a macro
\processrssfile{...}
that takes a local rss file and typesets it, then you can simply call
\processrssfile{\locfilename{http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml}}
to process a remote file. ConTeXt downloads and caches the file. On
subsequent calls, the cached file is used. IIRC, the cache remains valid
for a day and it is possible to change the threshold after which a new
file is fetched.
FWIW, I have added this to t-vim.tex so it can pretty-print remote files.
This only works with http:// or ftp:// and not with https://
Aditya
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 20:15 Jelle Huisman
2012-04-20 20:40 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-04-20 20:47 ` Jelle Huisman
2012-04-20 21:14 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.LNX.2.02.1204201708460.30888@qrpragenyvmrq \
--to=adityam@umich.edu \
--cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).