On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:46 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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luigi scarso wrote:

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http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. Sorry, missing some words ; it should be "it would be nice to have something in context to show on the wiki" I'm sure that pdfs will be more beatiful, and we will have some original examples to show on the wiki.

Why exactly? If it is just for the creation of sample documents: SCIgen is a template-driven perl script that is open-source, so creating a context backend would be easy (and fun).

But there is already a mechanism to create fake documents, not so nice as real fake text but usefull. m-visual.tex %D For Mojca: %D %D \starttyping %D \def\simplethesis %D {\setupsystem[random=1234] %D \title{\fakewords{3}{4}} %D \placelist[chapter,section] %D \dorecurse{6} %D {\chapter{\fakewords{5}{10}} %D \dorecurse{5} %D {\section{\fakewords{2}{5}} %D \dorecurse{2} %D {\dorecurse{3}{\fakewords{100}{200}\endgraf} %D \placefigure{\fakewords{8}{15}}{\fakefigure{5cm}{3cm}{10cm}{5cm}} %D \dorecurse{2}{\fakewords{100}{200}\endgraf}}}}} %D %D \starttext %D \simplethesis %D \stoptext %D \stoptyping Wolfgang

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

luigi scarso wrote:

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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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luigi scarso wrote:

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http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. Sorry, missing some words ; it should be "it would be nice to have something in context to show on the wiki"

Again inaccurate, sorry. I'm thinking something like http://live.contextgarden.net/ One fill a form like http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen hit some a buttons, and voila' a nice pdf (and a virtual CS paper) . -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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Again inaccurate, sorry. I'm thinking something like http://live.contextgarden.net/ One fill a form like

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen hit some a buttons, and voila' a nice pdf (and a virtual CS paper) .

Hmmm ... that's actually a really nice idea :) If anyone is ready to port the code to ConTeXt, I promise to include it into the source browser (or, in case that I happen to have too much time ... but I doubt that anyone on my faculty would be willing to accept a thesis like that one ... :).

I wanted to see the code, but the server they mention on their website doesn't exist.

works here, sent it to you by email Best wishes, Taco

Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

Le 09 avril à 13:25:50 "luigi scarso" écrit notamment:

| and voila' | a nice pdf (and a virtual CS paper)

Actually as you all probably know, this website has been created by CS students to demonstrate how serious some meetings are: they submitted several papers created by their tools to the committee of a big meeting in the US and one or two were accepted (it is about 3 or 4 years ago).

But why not invent for context something nicer than CS papers, love letters for instance?

I second that. Or poetry perhaps. Random prophesies could be too dangerous to meddle with ;-)