https://github.com/tomcl/fantom-tutorial

https://github.com/tomcl/fantom-tutorial

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tomcl/fantom-tutorial
• Owner: tomcl
• Created: 2014-05-10T21:35:37.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-05-12T05:50:40.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T03:53:03.393Z (7 months ago)
• Size: 496 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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fantom-tutorial

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->tutorial.lyx

->tutorial.pdf

This is a tutorial for Fantom suitable for somone familiar with OO languages who wants a clearer guide to Fantom's features than is found in the standard documentation.

It is NOT a guide to all of Fantom's syntax, which can be picked up from the Fantom standard documentation.

# Editing the source

The guide is written as a single file in lyx source that contains tikz pictures. It can be exported as latex or PDf using Lyx 2.1 +. An uptodate PDF export will always be kept with the source.

Lyx is a neat wysiwym editor that encapsulates latex in a readable form. Lyx source can be edited similarly to a word processor document with the big advantage that page layout, cross references, styles, are all handles properly. Think of it as a sweet spot compromise between wysiwyg word processor formats and impossible to read without compiling macro-based latex.

For those not currently using latex or tex, Lyx 2.1 can be downloaded standalone from www.lyx.org, it will download all necessary dependencies. On Windows MikTex is a better base distribution than Texlive unless you want a very big download - miktex will download new packages as needed on demand (you should set the download setting to automatic).

Lyx has a "compare" option that will merge documents nicely if needed, and also integrates with git repositories. If anyone wishes to correct/add to this document then just create a branch and do so - I will merge it back in (I've not used git before so i only imagine this will work in an obvious way!).