Re: [Seaside] BOLatexWriter

Thanks. In the latest version of all Grease packages and the print: method is not around in the Stream hierarchy.

So, for is it Ok to have the fix in BOLatexWriter>>visitInternalLink: by replacing stream with latex to work with print: or do you see problems there?

Cheers, Doru On 24 Sep 2011, at 23:11, Lukas Renggli wrote: > Yes, this is intentional: 'stream' is the raw low-level stream, 'latex' is the high-level encoded stream. The choice to which you send the output is important. Changing it likely breaks the generation of valid LaTeX. > > GRPharoUtf8CodecStream or better its abstract superclass should implement #print:. I think this was discussed in the Seaside list recently and fixed, but I might be wrong. > > Lukas > > On Saturday, 24 September 2011, Tudor Girba <tudor(a)tudorgirba.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am testing Pier 2 some more, and now I got a problem in the Latex writer. Specifically, I do not quite understand the difference between the latex instance variable and the inherited stream one. >> >> Take a look at the snippet below: >> >> BOLatexWriter>>visitInternalLink: anInternalLink >> ... >> latex tab ... square: [ stream nextPutAll: 'width='; print: ((anInternalLink parameterAt: 'width' ifAbsent: [ 100 ]) asNumber / 100.0); ... ] >> >> When executed on a book we have two instance variables: >> - stream: instance of GRPharoUtf8CodecStream (inherited) >> - latex: instance of BOLatexStream which wraps stream >> >> Now, it so happens that GRPharoUtf8CodecStream does not understand print:, but this method exists in BOLatexStream. I fixed the code by replacing stream with latex in the above method, and it works. >> >> But, there are still other places that use stream, and I think they should all use the BOLatexStream instance instead. So, my question is: Is this intentional? Or maybe should we actually simply override the setting of stream and use that one for everything? >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Yesterday is a fact. >> Tomorrow is a possibility. >> Today is a challenge." >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... >> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki >> > > -- > Lukas Renggli > www.lukas-renggli.ch > _______________________________________________ > Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki -- www.tudorgirba.com "From an abstract enough point of view, any two things are similar." _______________________________________________ seaside mailing list seaside(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside