Re: Google Summer of Code - LaTeX processing

[Andrej Lojdl]

Today I had more time, so I started reading the code and thinking how to control multiline high as Michael proposed. There are some things bugging me... I understand that height is expressed in font size and that 64 is some scaling factor between font size and size of character on screen. And that we save line high in font size (it is expressed in font size). But I don't understand how to add this scaling factor? Can someone give me a hint or example? When make plot and add title typing title (" text \n text \n text \n"), it makes two lines and then, just pack all new lines to second. If I get it, this is what needs to be repaired. Is function called once for every line or  for whole string?

2013/6/5 Andrej Lojdl <address@hidden>

Hi Patrick,
The exam went well, thank you for asking. Yeah, it’s quite lively on college these days. I had one exam today and one coming on Saturday. But, I will have more time now, because some lectures and exercises are completed. If I pass this exam, I will have only one left after the official start of coding. As for the mails you sent me in the past few days, I took a quick look at the resources, but haven't had enough time to go deeply through all of them.
I started a blog yesterday and set rss feed on melange, send it to Jordi and here it is: http://latexmarkup.blogspot.com/ Any comments and recommendations are welcome. There are already some things confusing me, but I want to dedicate more time to read all new informations, to make it little clearer. Also to be able to ask more specific and more direct questions.

Best regards,
Andrej Lojdl

2013/6/4 Patrick Noffke <address@hidden>

Hi Andrej,

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Michael also suggested an initial project for Andrej to get familiar with
>> the code.  That was to support multi-line text items.
>
> Actually, it's about controlling the line height of multiline text items.
> This was brought by jast on IRC (whoever it is). The idea is to have a
> scaling factor in the text object properties, that is used to multiply the
> line-height derived from the font metrics. Equivalent of CSS line-height,
> except it's a simple scaling factor.
>
> Michael.
>

I hope your exam went well.  I know you have one more coming up, but
are you able to spend some time on your GSoC project this week?  If
not, then a brief update would be appreciated as to when you expect to
begin.

Also, please start a blog as per Jordi's request, and post status
updates to it.  Let us know the link when you get it set up.

Please let us know if you have any questions at all.  I think there's
a lot of excitement about this project, and several people willing to
help.

Regards,
Patrick