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Well, I'm glad someone got some use from it :)

The error *is* probably a permissions error.

Eddie

Thanks Lutz.

Wow, I thought it would take more changes than that. I need to make some modifications for security reasons.

If it works for you, I can put it on as a demo again.

Sure, you may use it or modify it for whatever purpose you wish.

Eddie[/quote]

Hello Lutz.

I once wrote a web calendar program an posted it on newlisp. I figured you had updated it so that it would run with newer versions of newlisp. I was wondering if you have an updated version? I need to modify it so that it will run on one of our httpd servers on a specified port.

Eddie

You might want to implement filter-map as well. There are a bunch of nice functions in the SRFI libraries like append-map and one that I was using quite often when collecting data for calculations. Note that I just copied this documentation from the DrScheme help desk. filter-map f clist1 clist2 ......

Hi cormullion. This is really a tough one in one sense, because NL doesn't have a character data type that would be an element of a string (list or array of characters). Membership should only be used to test to see if a character is in a string. We should be able to almost treat "" as {}. Of course...

As a mathematician I can definitely say two things are being confused here. substring should act like subset in sets, i.e. {a} is a subset of {a,b}. Also, {} is a subset of every set. member should act like set membership, i.e. a is a member of {a,b}. However, {a} is not a member of {a,b} and neithe...

Hi Nigel, Looks great! Strange that it lost the table of contents. commenting out \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} caused lots of error regarding \textquotedbl commenting out \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts,textcomp} causes errors re \textquotesingle. I'm not sure why they do it that way? Maybe to avoi...

I don't see any problems except that it is not loading the newcentury fonts. You can kill the \usepackage[ascii]{inputenc} and \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} if you wish. I even doubt wether you need the \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts,textcomp} since I don't think there's probably any serious math s...

If you can, show all of the stuff between \documentclass{.... and \begin{document}. Another suggestion is the ordering of the packages: try putting \usepackage{newcent} as the last package before \begin{document}

Eddie

Will Nigel's solution work Lutz? If it does I would like to make one suggestion. In the .tex file on the very next line after the \documentclass{article or whatever } put \usepackage{newcent} This will make the fonts much cleaner and enable you to copy and paste text from the manual (if you click th...

Editing a text file would be fine, as long as everything we do is with standard tools. I do not want add new dependencies, incompatibilities etc.. The current method using HTML and OpenOffcie at least works on all platforms. We will do it but is has to be simple. By all means! The standard tools wo...

Actually, what I was thinking: create a file called manual.txt. Run the script ./doc.lsp quickref.txt The output would be 3 files: "manual.html," "manual.pdf," and "qref.pdf." This might actually take a bit more thought? We would just use short commands in manual.txt .h 0 Introduction .p this is a p...

Are you using OSX?

If you are using Linux, the PDF and HTML files generated by the script would be portable across all platforms.

Eddie

Actually a script to generate both the HTML version and a PDF file is what I would prefer doing. I'm doing something similar to this for the Factbook I generate here at the College. If I make this script, could we possibly generate two PDF documents instead of one (One for the main document and the ...

Nigel, I somewhat cheat on this. There is generally a package of macros to do about anything you want in LaTeX. I don't write that many macros (depends on the project). I just \usepackage{whatever} and use the commands from the manual provided. I also use LyX many times to get the main content in an...

I should be able to do it over the weekend.

Eddie

Lutz,

I would be glad to generate the documentation from LaTeX. I've been using LaTeX for quite some time now and the PDF links and such are no problem at all.

I could generate a copy by next week and e-mail it to you to look at and see if you like it?

Eddie

The "srfi" are standard libraries for scheme. For instance "1" is for extra list functionality. For example, (require (lib "string.ss" "srfi" "13")) will load a bunch of string functionality. Below are libraries included with mzscheme (drscheme). SRFI-1 list.ss 1 SRFI-2 and-let.ss 2 SRFI-4(*1) 4.ss ...

netytan, Make sure at the top of the source you use all of (require (lib "list.ss" "srfi" "1")) because (require (lib "list.ss")) is a different package! I was a bit confussed the first time trying to include the functionality to. I found the code to reduce and reduce-right in the file "fold.ss" und...

That is one gripe I have against scheme and what I do like about newLISP, the looonnnnggg definition names. For example, (string-append , (string-drop-right ,or (call-with-input-file , etc... It gets hard to read a long line strung out with intervening spaces, words, and white space. To make it read...

Am I dunce? YES I AM. Sorry didn't see the February. I'm going to have to slow down at work and read a little more clearly.

Eddie

Lutz,

I see "next release version 8.8 February 10th, 2006" on the main Web page but I see not the download?

Eddie

If you are using drscheme, you can look into collects folder and find the scheme source code for filter, reduce, fold, foldr, unfold, zip, filter-map, etc,... When you get ready to write some serious code, I would use the libraries provided instead of rewriting them all. For Instance, (require (lib ...

Since the digits are reverse order, try and change the order of the (if statements below the (cons
Just a guess! There is also a xcons (reverse cons) function in the "srfi 1" library.

Eddie

Eddie