Fortran - ANN: f95totex: A Fortran-to-LaTeX prettyprinter (of sorts)

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ANN: f95totex: A Fortran-to-LaTeX prettyprinter (of sorts)

Brooks Moses

2005-08-24, 3:57 am

This is mostly just a small program that I worked up for my own use, but
it's the sort of thing that someone else might find use for as well, so
I decided to post it. It's still a bit buggy and unfinished, so
consider it somewhere between "alpha" and "beta" level. :)

Essentially, what it does is take Fortran programs (specifically, ones
in which the comments are written in LaTeXable form) and converts them
to LaTeX files, which can then be processed through PDFLaTeX to get a
..pdf file with all the comments and code in a nice readable form.

The files are available from this url -- there's the F95 source of the
program, and a .pdf of the source as run through the program, as an
example of what the output looks like:

http://dpdx.net/software/tex/f95totex/

Comments, questions, suggestions, and bug reports are quite welcome,
though I may not get to them for a while.

- Brooks

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Madhusudan Singh

2005-08-24, 6:59 pm

Brooks Moses wrote:

> This is mostly just a small program that I worked up for my own use, but
> it's the sort of thing that someone else might find use for as well, so
> I decided to post it. It's still a bit buggy and unfinished, so
> consider it somewhere between "alpha" and "beta" level. :)
>
> Essentially, what it does is take Fortran programs (specifically, ones
> in which the comments are written in LaTeXable form) and converts them
> to LaTeX files, which can then be processed through PDFLaTeX to get a
> .pdf file with all the comments and code in a nice readable form.
>
> The files are available from this url -- there's the F95 source of the
> program, and a .pdf of the source as run through the program, as an
> example of what the output looks like:
>
> http://dpdx.net/software/tex/f95totex/
>
> Comments, questions, suggestions, and bug reports are quite welcome,
> though I may not get to them for a while.
>
> - Brooks
>
>

Looks interesting and useful. You might want to host it on sourceforge under
some open source license.

Brooks Moses

2005-08-24, 6:59 pm

Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Brooks Moses wrote:
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>
> Looks interesting and useful. You might want to host it on sourceforge under
> some open source license.

Thanks for the suggestion! As the readme file says, it's currently
released under the GPL. What would be the advantages of hosting it on
sourceforge rather than on my own site? (My impression is that it's
mostly useful for projects that are rather larger and more active than
this one, but I could be incorrect....)

- Brooks

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Madhusudan Singh

2005-08-25, 6:59 pm

Brooks Moses wrote:

> Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> [...]
>
> Thanks for the suggestion! As the readme file says, it's currently
> released under the GPL. What would be the advantages of hosting it on
> sourceforge rather than on my own site? (My impression is that it's
> mostly useful for projects that are rather larger and more active than
> this one, but I could be incorrect....)
>
> - Brooks
>
>

Sourceforge offers additional services like mailing lists (which I do not
like much), feature requests, bug tracking, CVS, etc.

Not to mention, your project would probably get more attention if it were
hosted on sourceforge, and that usually results in greater scrutiny and
better performance.

Jussi Jumppanen

2005-08-30, 6:59 pm

Brooks Moses wrote:

> (My impression is that it's mostly useful for projects that
> are rather larger and more active than this one, but I could
> be incorrect....)

I think you will find that most sourceforge projects are in
fact small one/two man projects, many of which are in fact
dead.

Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows Editor (New version 3.95 out now)
"The C/C++, Cobol, Fortran, Java, Python, PHP, Perl folding editor"
Home Page: http://www.zeusedit.com

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