Wolfram’s Computable Document Format and Dexy
This morning, several people pointed me to Wolfram’s Computable Document Format asking whether it is a direct competitor to Dexy. In short, no. CDF documents created using Mathematica have some...
View ArticleDexy 0.4.1
Dexy 0.4.1 is out. There were some major behind-the-scenes changes in Dexy 0.4.0 which came out earlier this week, so many that I’m not going to try to write them up now. In 0.4.1, notable new features...
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Blogging with WordPress and Dexy
For a developer, trying to blog about code is a frustrating process. WYSIWYG content editors mangle code and whitespace. Tools like gist and other code-snippet displays can help, but they also distance...
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Happy Pi Day
It was pretty late last night when I finished my post about blogging with WordPress and Dexy, so I didn’t even notice it had turned into π day. This morning of course twitter reminded me, and in...
View ArticleStargazing with Dexy
Let’s check out the new Stargazer library for making beautiful PDF tables and see how to make it work with dexy. To use the R package we first load the library: > library(stargazer) Please cite as:...
View ArticleSymPy and LaTeX
SymPy is a computer algebra system for Python. This blog post will talk about how to use SymPy with Dexy to get automated mathematical LaTeX in your documents. With SymPy you can calculate things like...
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Documenting PHP with Dexy
I just received a question about how to use Dexy to document procedural (non-OOP) PHP code. Here are some ways of using dexy to document PHP. These examples assume you already have familiarity with the...
View ArticleDexy 1.0
Get it while the egg is still warm! https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dexy What can you expect now that Dexy is 1.X? Now that dexy has a grown-up version number, you can expect a lot more stability, but the...
View ArticleDexy 1.0.1
Dexy 1.0.1 was released on December 11, 2013. The release includes several bug fixes. The major new feature in this release was template assertions. In your jinja2 templates, you can now make...
View ArticleDexy 1.0.2
Dexy 1.0.2 was released on January 6, 2014. Thanks to Seth Warn for contributing patches and suggestions for the features in this release. The rstmeta filter now works as intended, adding metadata like...
View ArticleDexy 1.0.5
Fix the link() method so it generates correct relative paths. Added the kramdown filter for the kramdown markdown compiler. Add a clojure output filter, reassign the clj alias for this filter instead...
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MATLAB and Dexy
MATLAB is a programming language and environment which is widely used in many academic and technical fields. This blog post will cover the basics of running MATLAB code using Dexy. If you aren’t...
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