Feature Request - Raw HTML in ddoc comments

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Mar 1 01:00:31 PST 2008


Janice Caron wrote:
> No disputing that, but the one remaining issue from this thread which
> you haven't really commented on is the fact that ddoc accepts inline
> HTML, but that authors are discouraged from using it. That just seems
> nasty to me. Either support it, or ban it, but not half-and-half,
> please.

There's no way to ban it, because ddoc is a text macro processing 
program. It does not know what html is.

> By the way, is there any publicly available tool which will convert
> ddoc into any form /other/ than HTML? e.g. pdf?

Andrei said at one point he had a sort of set of macros that would cause 
ddoc to produce latex output, which could then be used to generate pdf.



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