Fortran - new CD on server

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new CD on server

Dan Nagle

2008-03-11, 7:23 pm

Hello,

There's a new committee draft (CD) on the J3 server
www.j3-fortran.org

It's identical with N1723 on the WG5 server (or will be shortly).

It's 08-007r2.pdf and it has some corrections for typos
found during the WG5/J3 editorial review process.
It may be found as a standing document, or as a year 08 document,
or as a meeting 184 document. It's about 8 MB, about 600 pages.

If you would like to comment on f08, you may want to start
reading this document now. The Introduction, page xiii,
contains a short description of the new features.

I anticipate Public Comment will be during June of this year.
I'll be more specific when I can.

--
Cheers!

Dan Nagle

2008-03-12, 4:46 am

> If you would like to comment on f08, you may want to start reading this
> document now.

I have a comment of editorial nature: the PDF produced for these
committee drafts have the slightly annoying issue that you can't search
into them for strings containing an underscore. I've experienced this
issue with both Adobe Reader (MacOS and Windows) and Preview (the default
Apple PDF reader): search for "iso_fortran_env" and it doesn't find it.

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FX

2008-03-12, 8:13 am

> the PDF produced for these committee drafts have the slightly annoying
> issue that you can't search into them for strings containing an
> underscore

The committee drafts are apparently produced with LaTeX (excellent
choice!) and a question to my local LaTeX user group quickly turned up a
solution: simply load the "cmap" package. From doc/latex/cmap/README:

The cmap package is intended to make the PDF files generated by
pdflatex "searchable and copyable" in acrobat reader and other
compliant PDF viewers.

Just put the line \usepackage{cmap} at the beginning of your
preamble, and it will pre-load the needed CMap translations for the
fonts used in the document, provided that there exists the file
<encoding>.cmap for the font encoding.

I hope this helps.

--
FX

Dr Ivan D. Reid

2008-03-12, 7:32 pm

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:15:53 +0000 (UTC), FX <coudert@alussinan.org>
wrote in <fr8agp$k6j$1@nef.ens.fr>:

> The committee drafts are apparently produced with LaTeX (excellent
> choice!)

I take it that these CDs have little in the way of floats. One of
the nastiest polishing jobs in LaTex is arranging things so that your
Tables and Figs are close to where they're referenced. (Currently
incorporating referees' suggestions into a draft, which has totally screwed
the previous layout... But I did manage to squeeze Fortran into a CMS
document!)

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

Jan Vorbrüggen

2008-03-13, 10:17 pm

> I take it that these CDs have little in the way of floats. One of
> the nastiest polishing jobs in LaTex is arranging things so that your
> Tables and Figs are close to where they're referenced.

Indeed. I only do this after I have made a commitment to myself not to
change the text anymore. Any earlier is just a waste of time and effort.

Jan

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