latex?

[Johan Granberg]

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 they rapidly go out of date.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.)

You could probably make Ddoc output to latex and then compile that into pdf.