From 9d20ce8575d0779426abfb33a05a2a7ef545456c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Allingham <don@gramps-project.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:02:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a bit of documentation.

svn: r736
---
 gramps/src/docgen/LaTeXDoc.py | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gramps/src/docgen/LaTeXDoc.py b/gramps/src/docgen/LaTeXDoc.py
index a34910a53..5af29736c 100644
--- a/gramps/src/docgen/LaTeXDoc.py
+++ b/gramps/src/docgen/LaTeXDoc.py
@@ -18,38 +18,57 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 #
 
+"""LaTeX document generator"""
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# gramps modules 
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from TextDoc import *
-from latin_utf8 import latin_to_utf8
 import Plugins
 import intl
 _ = intl.gettext
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #
-# 
+# LaTeXDoc
 #
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 class LaTeXDoc(TextDoc):
-
+    """LaTeX document interface class. Derived from TextDoc"""
+    
     def open(self,filename):
+        """Opens the specified file, making sure that it has the
+        extension of .tex"""
+        
         if filename[-4:] != ".tex":
             self.filename = filename + ".tex"
         else:
             self.filename = filename
-
         self.f = open(self.filename,"w")
+
+        # Font size control seems to be limited. For now, ignore
+        # any style constraints, and use 12pt has the default
+        
         options = "12pt"
 
         if self.orientation == PAPER_LANDSCAPE:
             options = options + ",landscape"
 
+        # Paper selections seem to be limited as well. Not sure
+        # what to do if the user picks something else. I believe
+        # this defaults to 'letter'
         if self.paper.name == "A4":
             options = options + ",a4paper"
         elif self.paper.name == "A5":
             options = options + ",a5paper"
         elif self.paper.name == "B5":
             options = options + ",b4paper"
-            
+
+        # Use the article template, T1 font encodings, and specify
+        # that we should use Latin1 character encodings.
+        
         self.f.write('\\documentclass[%s]{article}\n' % options)
         self.f.write('\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n')
         self.f.write('\\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}\n')
@@ -59,18 +78,25 @@ class LaTeXDoc(TextDoc):
         self.in_list = 0
 
     def close(self):
+        """Clean up and close the document"""
+        
         if self.in_list:
             self.f.write('\\end{description}\n')
         self.f.write('\\end{document}\n')
         self.f.close()
 
     def start_page(self,orientation=None):
+        """Nothing needs to be done to start a page"""
         pass
 
     def end_page(self):
+        """Issue a new page command"""
         self.f.write('\\newpage')
 
     def start_paragraph(self,style_name,leader=None):
+        """Paragraphs handling - paragraphs seem to be limited in
+        what we can do. The only thing I can see to do is to use
+        the levels to provide the headers."""
         style = self.style_list[style_name]
         self.level = style.get_header_level()
 
@@ -91,6 +117,7 @@ class LaTeXDoc(TextDoc):
             self.f.write('\\item{%s} ' % leader)
     
     def end_paragraph(self):
+        """End the current paragraph"""
         if self.level > 0:
             self.f.write('}\n')
         elif not self.in_list:
@@ -99,38 +126,55 @@ class LaTeXDoc(TextDoc):
             self.f.write('\n')
 
     def start_bold(self):
+        """Bold face"""
         self.f.write('\\bfseries ')
-        pass
 
     def end_bold(self):
+        """End bold face"""
         self.f.write('\\mdseries ')
-        pass
 
     def start_table(self,name,style_name):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
 
     def end_table(self):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
 
     def start_row(self):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
 
     def end_row(self):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
 
     def start_cell(self,style_name,span=1):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
 
     def end_cell(self):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
 
     def add_photo(self,name,pos,x,y):
+        """Currently no table support"""
         pass
     
-    def horizontal_line(self):
-        pass
-
     def write_text(self,text):
+        """Write the text to the file"""
         self.f.write(text)
 
-Plugins.register_text_doc(_("LaTeX"),LaTeXDoc,0,1,0)
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Register the document generator with the system
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Plugins.register_text_doc(
+    name=_("LaTeX"),
+    classref=LaTeXDoc,
+    table=0,
+    paper=1,
+    style=0
+    )