Getting all available Medley documentation converted to PDF

[masinter]

I've been working on this for a while but maybe it's not obvious. There is now a utility in medley/internal/MEDLEY-UTILS called HCFILES: (FILESLOAD MEDLEY-UTILS) (HCFILES) will scan MEDLEYDIR and all subdirectories for TEDIT TED SKETCH TXT files and convert to postscript ... which then I run through the Acrobat distiller to create PDFs, and then use Acrobat to combine into a single file. After reverting back to an older version of TEDIT (from envos) and making a small patch to SKETCH (viz https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/pull/836#pullrequestreview-1040942506 ) I've managed to convert 99% of the TEdit documents to a single 4.5 MB 2058 page PDF. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10ZBQty5gEwdBnZHtEbXfe5f1dHGziGZG

So far the problems remain

• [x] 3-4 crashes in GC with bad free list. Fortunately, (HCFILES) with no arguments defaults to "don't convert if the .PS file is already there". The files get stored in tmp/psfiles/path where path is the original file name with > turned into -; so (SAVEVM) before starting, run (HCFILES) and on the crash, delete the last .PS file and restart.
• [x] Several image object files will be loaded again if not loaded already. I load TMAX, IMTOOLS and a couple of others in my init; haven't tested whether the autoloading of IMAGEOBJ functions work for those.
• [x] This doesn't work with current TEdit (see notes on PR #836 and following)
• [x] the changes to HCFILES and SKETCH aren't checked in.
• [ ] Documentation written in Japanese doesn't convert to PDF (shows up as black boxes)
• [ ] Odd formatting glitches...
• [x] This is just one step of documenting maiko and medley sufficiently to address many of the "documentation" wishes and issues.

[masinter]

Update:

• HCFILES moving to "test" repo. Currently in test/new/printing/ (should move to test/library/tedit probably)
• Most problems fixed; but see BADFILES.TXT for files in Envos repo that had problems.
  • still a few crashes
  • must preload image object support files if not in DIRECTORIES (Notefile)
  • Things checked into test repo
  • still problems with characters outside of c0 and formatting glitched (likely font problems)
• Should add .NOTEFILE .NOTE to list of extensions
• Results are in Interlisp shared Google drive:
  • medley, test, notecards, loops documents
    • https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10ZBQty5gEwdBnZHtEbXfe5f1dHGziGZG
  • from Envos repo (request access if you need)
    • https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1o4l-zB5Mfl-M0W8N1U4EMHGYeo55orpY

[rmkaplan]

wrt Japanese, you might try loading the JAPANESE file. This defines the various Japanese external formats, which presumaby wouldn’t matter for these XCC-encoded Tedit files. But who knows?

It may also just be a font problem, the Japanese characters probably exist at best only in Classic or Modern.

On Jul 16, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Larry Masinter @.***> wrote:

I've been working on this for a while but maybe it's not obvious. There is now a utility in medley/internal/MEDLEY-UTILS called HCFILES: (FILESLOAD MEDLEY-UTILS) (HCFILES) will scan MEDLEYDIR and all subdirectories for TEDIT TED SKETCH TXT files and convert to postscript ... which then I run through the Acrobat distiller to create PDFs, and then use Acrobat to combine into a single file. After reverting back to an older version of TEDIT (from envos) and making a small patch to SKETCH (viz #836 (review) https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/pull/836#pullrequestreview-1040942506 ) I've managed to convert 99% of the TEdit documents to a single 4.5 MB 2058 page PDF. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10ZBQty5gEwdBnZHtEbXfe5f1dHGziGZG https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/10ZBQty5gEwdBnZHtEbXfe5f1dHGziGZG So far the problems remain [] 3-4 crashes in GC with bad free list. Fortunately, (HCFILES) with no arguments defaults to "don't convert if the .PS file is already there". [] Several image object files will be loaded again if not loaded already. I load TMAX, IMTOOLS and a couple of others in my init; haven't tested whether the autoloading of IMAGEOBJ functions work for those. [] This doesn't work with current TEdit (see notes on PR #836 https://github.com/Interlisp/medley/pull/836 and following) [] the changes to HCFILES and SKETCH aren't checked in. [] Documentation written in Japanese doesn't convert to PDF (shows up as black boxes) [] Odd formatting glitches... [] This is just one step of documenting maiko and medley sufficiently to address many of the "documentation" wishes and issues.

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[masinter]

HCFILES now back in medley repo in file internal/MEDLEY-UTILS

[masinter]

The output is now in the pub-pdfs repo. Which means they are available under https://interlisp.org/pub-pdfs/ including https://interlisp.org/pub-pdfs/all-medley.pdf which is 4341 pages and includes all tedit and sketch files from the medley, notecards, loops, test repos as well.

This is still a manual process that needs to be automated.

[masinter]

made good progress on this... HCFILES uses TEDIT.FORMATTEDFILEP, most of the other problems are noted elsewhere.

The notes on Japanese keyboards need some investigation.