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lucs Heya pronik. 19:29
pronik lucs: hi
lucs How are you doing?
pronik soso -- had to work today :-/
lucs Bleah :)
pronik gotta look more into perl6 lexer 19:30
lucs To improve the syntax highlighting?
pronik right
lucs Cool.
pronik to make it work at all 19:31
my problem is: I know very little about perl6 and the book itself is no big help so far ;)
lucs I know hardly anything about Perl6.
That's why I can only help on the formatting. 19:32
Which I won't have time to look at much for a little while :(
(I need to do some PostScript/LaTeX stuff for my wife.)
I understand that there is a plan to release a version of the book at the same time as Rakudo* (July 29), but I should have time to get back to it before then. 19:34
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lucs With some luck, you'll have figured out the lexing :-) 19:34
pronik should be doable, but we'll see how it goes 19:35
lucs By the way, for what it's worth, getting rid of '\\usepackage[english]{varioref}' (apparently incompatible with 'hyperref') makes the TOC links work correctly in the PDF. 19:41
(I had fun chasing that one down :-)
pronik no problem with that -- some of the lines are copied verbatim from my bachelor's thesis, with some I don't have any idea what they actually do :) 19:43
lucs Yeah, it feels a bit cargo-culted :) 19:44
moritz_ that's the way most of my latex documents work too
lucs I'm going to try to trim it down (good learning experience).
moritz_ chases down a SRSLY WTF bug 19:45
lucs In the book?
pronik lucs: I think I can give a rationale for most of the lines, maybe i should comment them too -- LaTeX-foo of most people is far from being stellar... 19:46
moritz_ no, some local code here
sorry, off-topic
lucs moritz_: Ah, no problem :)
pronik: I would certainly learn from that. 19:47
LaTeX is so bloody huge nowadays.
pronik just subscribed to ctan updates
like I've noticed from xetex and minted there is a lot of progress in the latex world 19:48
moritz_ does latex have lexical scoping?
it somehow feels as if certain modules aren't properly encapsulated
pronik I'm afraid not
tex on the inside is more like assembler than like perl
lucs Yeah, things interact in weird ways sometimes. 19:49
moritz_ like, loading order of two seemingly unrelated modules makes bugs come and go
pronik however, I wonder what luatex brings
I haven't read my TeXbook in a long time...
luatex looks extremely interesting... 19:55
moritz_ what's up with latex 3? 19:56
pronik well, latex has always been a couple of styles atop of tex 19:58
and luatex is the replacement for tex
there is probably lualatex out there
that is: latex 3 is probably like perl6 -- will come out someday :) 19:59
but it's not really relevant for luatex
moritz_ ok :-)
pronik besides, it seems latex3 wanted to do everything that luatex / xetex / context etc. can already 20:00
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