discuss: Thread: converting LaTeX to HOWTO?

Subject: converting LaTeX to HOWTO?
From: Nico Schottelius ####@####.####
Date: 23 May 2004 21:07:19 -0000
Message-Id: <20040523210935.GI597@schottelius.org>

Hello!

If I want to write a HOWTO in LaTeX, is it possible to convert it easily
to a format required at tldp? I really would like to continue writing
documents in LaTeX/TeX, as they look very good and I don't have to care
about formatting.

Sincerly,
Nico

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<type 'exceptions.IOError'>

Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Sat Jul 6 04:05:04 2024

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/<string> in ()

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main()

424

425 if path is not None:

426 main_path(path)

427 else:

428 main_form()

global main_form = <function main_form at 0x8eedc6c>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form()

378 except ImportError:

379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")

380 module.do(ctxt)

381

382 def main():

module = <module 'commands.showthread' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x8f0795c>, global ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.py in do(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'})

9 ctxt.update(ezmlm.thread(ctxt[THREADID]))

10 header(ctxt, 'Thread: ' + ctxt[SUBJECT], 'showthread')

11 do_list(ctxt, 'msgs', ctxt[MSGSPERPAGE], ctxt[MESSAGES],

12 lambda:sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM]))

13 footer(ctxt)

global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x8eed1ec>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum'

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in do_list(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, name='msgs', perpage=10, values=[{'author': u'Nico Schottelius', 'authorid': 'mgjnddbhhoahhmgflapj', 'date': '23 May 2004 21:07:19 -0000', 'month': 200405, 'msgnum': 7350, 'subject': u'converting LaTeX to HOWTO?', 'threadid': 'pmpgbapbnpbfcbjjninb', 'timestamp': 1085346439.0}, {'author': u'Chris Karakas', 'authorid': 'elfkhmdcfpcflhjkhpgf', 'date': '24 May 2004 03:03:04 -0000', 'month': 200405, 'msgnum': 7354, 'subject': u'Re: converting LaTeX to HOWTO?', 'threadid': 'pmpgbapbnpbfcbjjninb', 'timestamp': 1085367784.0}, {'author': u'Nico Schottelius', 'authorid': 'mgjnddbhhoahhmgflapj', 'date': '25 Aug 2004 13:22:57 -0000', 'month': 200408, 'msgnum': 7798, 'subject': u'Re: converting LaTeX to HOWTO?', 'threadid': 'pmpgbapbnpbfcbjjninb', 'timestamp': 1093440177.0}, {'author': u'Chris Karakas', 'authorid': 'elfkhmdcfpcflhjkhpgf', 'date': '25 Aug 2004 16:47:27 -0000', 'month': 200408, 'msgnum': 7803, 'subject': u'Re: converting LaTeX to HOWTO?', 'threadid': 'pmpgbapbnpbfcbjjninb', 'timestamp': 1093452447.0}], peritem=<function <lambda> at 0x8f07ae4>)

128 write(template % ctxt)

129 if peritem:

130 peritem()

131 ctxt[ROW] += 1

132

peritem = <function <lambda> at 0x8f07ae4>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showthread.py in ()

9 ctxt.update(ezmlm.thread(ctxt[THREADID]))

10 header(ctxt, 'Thread: ' + ctxt[SUBJECT], 'showthread')

11 do_list(ctxt, 'msgs', ctxt[MSGSPERPAGE], ctxt[MESSAGES],

12 lambda:sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM]))

13 footer(ctxt)

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=7350)

229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)

230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)

231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)

232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)

233 ctxt.pop()

global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8eed1b4>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8f61ecc>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8f61ecc>, partnum=1)

205 else:

206 for p in part.get_payload():

207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)

208 else:

209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)

partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x8eed1b4>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8f6706c>

208 else:

209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)

210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)

211 return partnum

212

global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x8eed144>, ctxt = {'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x8f6706c>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'row': 0, 'cmd': 'showthread', 'charset': 'utf-...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x8f6706c>)

164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()

165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()

166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))

167 if not template:

168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])

global template = <function template at 0x8ee5e9c>, global html = <function html at 0x8ee5ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x8f68100>

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature')

40

41 def html(name):

42 return template(name + '.html')

43

44 def xml(name):

global template = <function template at 0x8ee5e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature'

/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html')

31 except IOError:

32 if not _template_zipfile:

33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])

34 try:

35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()

global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x8e7ea7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20']

/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8efa20c>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False)

337 self.filename = file

338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}

339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])

340 else:

341 self._filePassed = 1

self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x8efa20c>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r'

<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
      args = (2, 'No such file or directory')
      errno = 2
      filename = '-c'
      message = ''
      strerror = 'No such file or directory'