[aprssig] APRS document in LaTeX

[Erik Bacon Beck]

Thanks Georg!

I will take a look at your repo. 

I’m more familiar with Markdown than RST, but in general they have the same advantages over LaTeX of ease and portability I think.

I chose LaTeX because my idea at the time (two years ago) was to replicate the existing version as closely as possible (and LaTeX has the advantage of more flexibility, power, and granularity in typesetting over Markdown) get WB4APR to look at it and hopefully like it, and go from there (updating the spec, etc).

Given Bob’s untimely passing, that paradigm needs to be shifted. I think we are generally on the same page with the overall goals for the spec, and it makes sense not to duplicate effort. There’s probably a way to merge things together; I am just not sure at the moment how.

Regards, 

Erik N7FYO

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> On Jul 8, 2022, at 09:17, Georg Lukas <georg at op-co.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> it's nice to see additional activity in this context. I've done a quick
> & dirty "reverse engineering" effort with an online PDF converter to
> migrate the content from the PDF into a usable source format a few
> months ago, but it still needs significant manual cleanup efforts.
> 
> You can find the result at https://github.com/ge0rg/aprs101 - I've chosen
> ReStructuredText because it's a useful markup format with great tooling
> for online technical and protocol documentation, and it's easy to create
> HTML as well as printable PDF or other desired formats. A HTML export
> can be browsed at https://op-co.de/tmp/APRS101/
> 
> The APRS 1.01 specification is quite outdated, and we need to work
> through the text, convert it into a clean and editable source format
> that gives us a multitude of outputs, and then start extending it with
> all the changes that happened in the years after APRS101.PDF was carved
> into stone.
> 
> I appreciate LaTeX very much, and I've set my own fair share of
> publications and theses in it, but ultimately it is best suited to
> create documents that will be printed on paper, not quite as much for a
> protocol reference specification.
> 
> If you can use any of the above reverse-engineered RST for your project,
> feel free! If you have the time and capacity to contribute to the RST
> version, that would be really awesome!
> 
> 
> 73 de Georg DO1GL
> 
> * Erik Bacon Beck <bacon at tahoma.com> [2022-06-30 02:46]:
>> Hi John;
>> 
>> Right now, I’m trying to reproduce the original document as faithfully as possible. So am particularly interested in getting feedback on situations where that didn’t happen. Mostly content errors, but also typography that could be improved.
>> 
>> Erik
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Jun 29, 2022, at 17:13, John Ronan <jpronans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Eric,
>>> 
>>> Had you decided on conventions or anything like that for some of the more funky stuff like the Yellow highlighting... also was there anything specific you wanted someone to look at?
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> EI7IG
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 6/29/22 16:23, Erik Bacon Beck wrote:
>>>> Hi all;
>>>> 
>>>> I am a recent subscriber to this mailing list; hence I just learned today about WB4APR becoming a Silent Key.
>>>> 
>>>> For my own edification, I had started working on porting the APRS documentation to LaTeX many months ago, working on it sporadically. I am a few chapters in, and would be most glad to contribute what I have written so far with the community.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Erik
>>>> N7FYO
>>>> 
>>>> 
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