From: David MentreTo: lwn@lwn.net Subject: attn: Development Editor (Caml Weekly News x 2) Date: 17 Apr 2001 11:06:05 +0200 Cc: cook@lwn.net Here is the latest Caml Weekly News and last week Caml Weekly News, NOTE: Last week, this news was not published on LWN so I repost in this mail (lost mail?). ============================================================================== Here is the latest Caml Weekly News (week of 11th to 17th of April) [ BTW, if one reader of this News Letter wants me to speak of a specific topic (thread summary for example), let me know: David.Mentre@inria.fr ] Content: 1. ActiveDvi0.3: Dvi presenter 2. New archives of MLgraph The news! The news!: 1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the announce of the first release of ActiveDvi, a DVI previewer/presenter written in O'Caml, with some eye candy effects for your cool conference talks. It features the normal DVI preview and the followings: * Encapsulated Postscript File inclusion (using graphics package) * Some effects for presentation (pause, delay, text color change) Using mldvi.sty included in the source package, you can embed these effects in your TeX files easily. The source code and information are available at http://pauillac.inria.fr/activedvi/ Contributions and comments are welcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New archives of MLgraph from Emmanuel Chailloux are available at: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~emmanuel/Public/logiciels/MLgraph/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Here is the latest Caml Weekly News (week of 4th to 10th of April) [ BTW, if one reader of this News Letter wants me to speak of a specific topic (thread summary for example), let me know: David.Mentre@inria.fr ] Content: 1. New 0.417 Release of Caml/Tk 2. New 0.417 Release of MMM 3. Version 1.02 of the CamlImages library The news! The news!: 1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New 0.417 Release of Caml/Tk We are pleased to announce the new 0.417 version of Caml/Tk. It is a bug fix and up-to-date version of Caml/Tk that runs with Tcl/Tk 8.0/8.3 and the 3.01 version of the Objective Caml compiler. CamlTk home page is http://pauillac.inria.fr/camltk/ CamlTk source files can be found at ftp://ftp.inria.fr/cristal/ Minor changes: -- the widget compiler has been revised not to generate warnings. -- the japanese support has been fixed for Tk8.0. Enjoy. Jun P. Furuse && Pierre Weis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New 0.417 Release of MMM What is MMM ? ------------- MMM is a Web Browser entirely written in Caml by François Rouaix. It has some cool features, such as its low memory footprints (well not so low in fact), its Caml applet system, its automatic HTML 3.2 checking and editing facility. In addition, it is safer than usual browsers since it does not support Java. On the other hand MMM has some drawbacks, such as the lack of Java support, its bad support for frames, and its terrible way of handling tables. Why using MMM ? --------------- Anyway, MMM has some fervent supporters in the Caml community; in the first place because it proves that some non trivial programs such as a browser that must use a complex graphical interface can be written in our favorite functional language; also because it never crashes. More importantly, we love MMM for its ability to detect ``uninteresting'' pages: normally extremely fancy pages cannot be displayed at all by MMM. So, you gain some of your precious time by just looking at another, more interesting, corner of the Web! An additional way of using MMM is to verify that your WEB pages are not too ``my browser only'': if your pages are displayed correctly by MMM, it is a good indication that they will be displayed the same with other browsers. The new release: ---------------- We are pleased to announce the new 0.417 version of MMM. It is a bug fix and up to date version of MMM that runs with Tcl/Tk 8.0 or later and the 3.01 version of the Objective Caml compiler. MMM home page is at http://pauillac.inria.fr/mmm/ MMM source files can be found at ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/mmm/ Minor changes: -- update the applets system for the 3.01 version of Objective Caml. Enjoy MMM. Jun P. Furuse && Pierre Weis. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 1.02 of the CamlImages library, by Jun Furuse, François Pessaux, and Pierre Weis, is now available. CamlImages is an image processing library, which provides to the objective Caml programmer: ** basic functions for image processing and loading/saving various image file formats (hence providing a translation facility from format to format), ** an interface with the Caml graphics library that allows to display images in the Graphics module screen and to mix them with Caml drawings, ** a freetype interface, integrated into the library: you can draw texts into images using any truetype fonts, ** a set of example programs, including gif animation, slide show, postscript converter to print images. Sources and documentation are available from: http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlimages/eng.htm ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light/bazar-ocaml/camlimages-1.02.tgz Contributions and comments are welcome. Jun Furuse & Pierre Weis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ============================================================================== -- David.Mentre@inria.fr -- http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/ Opinions expressed here are only mine.