D programming language specification ebook

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/8/11 9:20 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/8/2011 8:58 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Is there a PDF of this? The URL http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/ has a
>> link to a PDF page
>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification/PDFArchive
>> which has a circualr reference back to the Digital Mars site and no PDF
>> about D 2.0, just various old PDFs about D 1.0.
>
>
> The makefile for the documentation has a build target for pdf's, but I
> haven't tried it.

I don't think the current approach to generating PDFs is good - it's 
essentially using a bridge for generating PDF from HTML.

What we need is a set of macros to generate TeX from ddoc followed by 
compilation. That will produce beautiful PDF files. I'll get to that 
once the Kindle pipeline is finished.

BTW we can choose the page size to be different from 8.5*11, but indeed 
reflowing is not possible.


Andrei