PDF version of D manuals
Lars Ivar Igesund
larsivar at igesund.net
Wed Nov 29 12:14:12 PST 2006
Walter Bright wrote:
> I've been taking some heat lately about the D web site not making
> available a PDF version of the D manual that can be downloaded, printed,
> and read offline.
>
> I know some people have made PDFs of the manual before. The trouble is,
> they rapidly go out of date.
>
> So I'm interested in if anyone can recommend a tool that can take text
> and convert it to PDFs. I'm not interested in a tool with a gui
> interface, I want one that can be driven from a script, so this can be
> done automatically with each new release.
>
> (The html version of the manual is currently created automatically using
> a script from Ddoc text files. Such has really cut the workload of
> maintaining a common look/feel of the site.)
htmldoc should be able to do what you want. If started without any
arguments, it pops up a gui, but it should be no problem to script it.
http://www.htmldoc.org
It should be easily available for your Linux distribution, seems to be more
troublesome to find a free Windows download.
--
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
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