latex?

[BCS]

Johan Granberg wrote:
> 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they rapidly go out of date.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.
> 

Dosn't DDoc have the processing macros in another file? IIRC it should 
be easy to have it dump both HTML and LaTeX and dump the latex into a PDF.

p.s. If you don't alredy have it, this is a farly painless LaTeX for win 
package:
http://www.miktex.org/