From paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu Tue Jul 4 13:04:06 2006 From: paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu (Bill Paxton) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:04:06 -0700 Subject: [Tioga-news] new release of Tioga GUI for Mac OS X Message-ID: Hi, I've made a few changes in the Mac Tioga viewer application -- the new version is now available http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/Tioga-1.1.2.1.dmg I often have several windows open at once, so there are now commands to cycle through them: CMD-left arrow and CMD-right arrow (same as in the Terminal). CMD-SHIFT-O will open the most recently opened document that is not already open. Do this repeatedly to get several documents reopened. When you aren't viewing an enlargement, you can now see a gray background behind the output page. Here's an example with the scale set to 85%. Cheers, Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Quite a few new things for this release: * you will now be pleased to find a tioga.sty file in your directory (after compiling, it's generated on the fly) holding many commands for inclusion of figures in a LaTeX document (the comments inside the file should be explicit enough) and the list of colors used by Tioga. * Dvector prides itself with a few more functions, clear?, dirty? dirty= to keep track of changes to a Dvector, and set to make massive modifications. * Dvector and Dtable now have a little sister, Function, that provides facilities for dealing with X,Y data, namely sorting along the X coordinates and interpolating. * you will also find some new functions in FigureMaker for coordinates conversions: convert_inches_to_output, convert_output_to_inches, convert_mm_to_output and convert_output_to_mm. The new release should be available at the usual place, http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=701&release_id=5818 as soon as rubforge's mirrors get in sync. This is about all, but keep watching, as I have some other piece of news coming. Enjoy ! Vincent From vincent.fourmond at 9online.fr Sun Jul 23 08:04:48 2006 From: vincent.fourmond at 9online.fr (Vincent Fourmond) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:04:48 +0200 Subject: [Tioga-news] ctioga 0.4 : a command-line interface for Tioga Message-ID: <44C365E0.6040901@9online.fr> Hello again ! We all know that Tioga is a really powerful tool, but so far it lacks the capacity to make simple things simple. I hope that I will fill the gap somehow. First thing I did after discovering Tioga was to create a command-line front-end for it. It did evolve with many suggestions and bug reports from Bill to the current release. I'll skip right to the examples: ctioga file.dat > plots column 2 as a function of 1 ctioga file at 2:3 > plots column 3 as a function of 2 ctioga 'file@$2 + $1:$3**2' > plots the square of column 3 as a function of the sum of the first and second ctioga --mono file.dat > plots column 2 as a function of 1 in monochrome.. ctioga --math 'sin(x)' > plots a nice sine There are many ways for now to customize the output. ctioga comes with a manual page (in doc/ctioga.1) and some examples in examples/ . I am waiting for suggestions and bug reports (with a certain preference for the first). ctioga can be downloaded on rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1477&release_id=6150 I hope you will find it useful ! Enjoy ! Vincent From srh at twoa.com Tue Jul 25 10:20:17 2006 From: srh at twoa.com (Scott Henderson) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:20:17 -0500 Subject: [Tioga-news] Scope of PDF Features Message-ID: <9D2ADAAA-20AA-44AB-8592-2DA6F96E7E3C@twoa.com> Hi, I am considering Ruby (RoR) for an upcoming project. This environment will be completely new to me, as my experience is in procedural programming. Thus, I am trying to access the lay of the land before embarking forward into Ruby Land. I would like to have complete flexibility in creating (new) or modifying (existing) PDF documents. This would include inserting or overlaying database values. It would also include converting Microsoft Word documents into PDF's (with inserted db values). Is this something Tioga can provide? Will I have a visual interface to Tioga (Mac OS X) that provides a flexible environment with which to create and debug my intended PDF handling? Appreciate any information along these lines. Thanks! Scott Henderson From paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu Tue Jul 25 11:00:41 2006 From: paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu (Bill Paxton) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:00:41 -0700 Subject: [Tioga-news] Scope of PDF Features In-Reply-To: <9D2ADAAA-20AA-44AB-8592-2DA6F96E7E3C@twoa.com> References: <9D2ADAAA-20AA-44AB-8592-2DA6F96E7E3C@twoa.com> Message-ID: <37D80E8A-E01C-4341-A281-DB40B7067DAC@kitp.ucsb.edu> On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Scott Henderson wrote: > Hi, > > I am considering Ruby (RoR) for an upcoming project. This > environment will be completely new to me, as my experience is in > procedural programming. Thus, I am trying to access the lay of the > land before embarking forward into Ruby Land. > > I would like to have complete flexibility in creating (new) or > modifying (existing) PDF documents. This would include inserting or > overlaying database values. It would also include converting > Microsoft Word documents into PDF's (with inserted db values). > > Is this something Tioga can provide? Will I have a visual interface > to Tioga (Mac OS X) that provides a flexible environment with which > to create and debug my intended PDF handling? > > Appreciate any information along these lines. > > Thanks! > > Scott Henderson Hi Scott, Tioga is focused on figures and plots rather than entire documents. It uses PDF for the graphics and TeX for the text, and in that context provides fairly complete access to PDF functionality. But for documents, you need something else. If you go to RubyForge (http://rubyforge.org/) and enter 'pdf' in the search field at the top of the page, you'll get a set of projects to check. I haven't used it myself, but I think "Ruby PDF Tools" might provide what you're after. There are also several others that are specific to RoR, so you might want to look at them as well. Best wishes, Bill Paxton From vincent.fourmond at 9online.fr Wed Jul 26 03:13:59 2006 From: vincent.fourmond at 9online.fr (Vincent Fourmond) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:13:59 +0200 Subject: [Tioga-news] Version 1.1.4, a bug-fix release Message-ID: <44C71637.9000404@9online.fr> Hello ! Thanks to Jean-Julien Fleck, a problem was discovered on Mac OS X.3 (and maybe other architectures). As he provided me with a shell access on his box, everything did go fast, and I'm happy to announce a 1.1.4 bug-fix release for Tioga. If 1.1.3 was working for you, you probably won't have much benefits from 1.1.4. The release is available on the usual place, http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=701 By the way, the file color_names.tex is now removed from the archive, as it is superseded by tioga.sty (generated at build-time). Enjoy ! Vincent