Cross referencing in Ddoc

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-12-31 22:08, Walter Bright wrote:

> Not at all. The same ddoc sources are used to generate an ebook and a
> Windows help file - which are based on html but require different html
> to be generated, a difference handled by ddoc. The ebook and chm both
> require post processing with tools supplied by Amazon and Microsoft,
> respectively.
>
> It works, it is not a failure because the source files do not need to be
> modified to get this working. A failure would be having to modify the
> source files each time a different output needs to be generated.

Ok, I would not consider it a failure if it needs to be converted to a 
different format. But adding cross referencing, generating an index or 
similar would still be a failure, if that requires post processing.

> We all of course want that - but there is certainly room for
> disagreement about what "best" is.

Yes, but who would not want cross referencing to work properly?

> Reinventing Amazon's "kindlegen.exe" seems pointless to me.

Yes, I agree.

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/Jacob Carlborg