Re: [lojban] Re: The CLL project, technical directions

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 05:35:08AM -0700, TR NS wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:36:10 AM UTC-4, Robin Powell wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 11:25:29PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: 
> > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:19:26PM -0700, TR NS wrote: 
> > > > FYI, common question is about indexing. This is how that is 
> > > > done: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.text.pandoc/5323 
> > > 
> > > Yeah, no. 
> > > 
> > > That only supports indexing in LaTeX (which is not enough for us), 
> > > and only by terrible passthrough commands.  That's awful. 
> >
> > FWIW, I'm currently just writing my own; it's not as hard as it 
> > sounds.  It's a ruby script that converts our pseudo-docbook 
> > directly into HTML or LaTeX, with the assumption that from those two 
> > we can get anything else (very likely using pandoc CLI in some 
> > cases, by the way). 
>
>
> I would be concerned about relying on a proprietary solution. How
> complicated is the the code?

Really not very at all; that was kind of the entire point.  Index
generation relies on some hairy ERB, but that's about it.

> Who will maintain it after you no longer can?

You're missing some context, the short version of which is "I don't
care".  I've spent the last decade catching every (not quite, but
for some years that was litterally true) dropped project around here and being
expected to maintain it, in almost all cases with literally *no-one*
offering any serious (more than an hour a month, and usually much
less) technical assistance.  I'm beyond tired of it.  I'm going to
do this because I fell I owe it to the community, but what happens
to it after that is of almost no interest to me.

> > It's reasonably ready for other people to look at, I've just been in 
> > the middle of a ridiculous crunch at dayjob. 
> >
> >
> Link?

Soon.  I hope.  It's so un-ready it wouldn't be of any use because,
for example, how to actually run the commands only exists in my
shell history.

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