From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) Subject: Re: Features and stuff I've been working on. Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:54:44 -1000 Message-ID: References: <3476.1346164642@alphaville> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6UgO-0008Pe-Gq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:54:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6UgM-00055A-Rv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:54:52 -0400 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:51526) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6UgM-00054m-Im for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:54:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Luis Anaya's message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:14:58 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Luis Anaya Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Aloha Luis, The babel documentation at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html encourages developers to take the steps necessary to include ob-* language support in the Org mode core. ob-mathomatic, ob-tcl, ob-jlang, and ob-newlisp sound like fine additions to me. I think they should be available from Org mode. Maintenance seems always to be an issue. Several language support files currently lack a maintainer. Would you be able to maintain those files if they go into core? All the best, Tom Luis Anaya writes: > Hi: > > I was interchanging emails with Bastien regarding some items I've been > working on for the past few month in my spare time. Some will be posted > into the development branch, but for others I would like to get some > feedback if these should be made available or not in the org-mode > github, they're available on mine (https://github.com/papoanaya/emacs_utils) > > New items > > ob-mathomatic.el :: Babel mode for Mathomatic. Mathomatic is a CAS written > in C. Very small and portable. I wrote it out of necessity being that my Atrix > does not have enough drive space for anything too big. It supports > plotting via gnuplot. For more information go to. > (www.mathomatic.org) > > org-groff-mom.el :: Groff exporter using MOM's macros. This one is > almost complete. (http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html) > > org-platypus.el :: Exporter mode for Platypus. Platypus is a small > typesetter written in java that is still in active development. Not > something I would put in main yet being that there are missing features > in the typesetter. (like no numbered headings!) > > But it is good enough to play with it. You can see the > results at https://www.box.com/s/b02f017f0d8854c6cbdb > (platypus.pz.org) > > ob-tcl.el :: I work with TCL daily, I just had to do it. It's a clone of > the ob-perl.el one translated to TCL. This should also work with expect and > ns2. (ww.tcl.tk) > > ob-jlang.el :: C'mon, there's nothing cooler than: > #+begin_src jlang :results output > a =. +/%$ > echo a i. 10 > #+end_src > :) This is org babel for JLanguage. This one is still in the works, but > it is functional. It has support for JConsole only (which makes sense). > (www.jsoftware.com) > > For those curious enough, the code computes the average from 0 to 9. > > ob-newlisp.el :: Why newlisp? Well, there's picolisp and other lisps > available. I use newlisp for a lot for system programming at home, so > there. Based on the ob-picolisp.el code. (www.newlisp.org) > > Updated features. These I will post in the org-mode Github after I test them > thoroughly > > org-e-groff.el :: > > 1. Ability to inline .PNG and JPEG. It wil use pngtopnm/pngtops or sam2p > for translating raster into Groff. But the process should be > automatic. This enables the use of ditaa on Groff exports. It is > controlled with a variable to allow disabling the feature if none of > these options are available. > 2. Ability to resize pic images. Height and attributes are now available > for .pic images in addition to eps ones. > > > Regards, -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com