PDF version of D manuals

[Steve Horne]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:27:04 +0100, Markus Dangl <danglm at in.tum.de>
wrote:

>Lars Ivar Igesund schrieb:
>> A solution that would be more troublesome to implement at first, but that
>> would be more powerful later (and for the D community at large), is to make
>> it possible for DDoc to output DocBook XML (see http://www.docbook.org ),
>> which through some careful transformations can be transformed to any format
>> you like (for X/HTML, just XSL transformations are necessary, using XSL
>> transformations + a XSL-FO processor like FOP
>> (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop), almost any format can be produced,
>> including PDF), and all from the same XML sources.
>> 
>> If someone would like to go this route, I might be able to give further
>> tips, I'm setting up a similar process where I'm currently working. 
>> 
>
>This is almost what i intended to do by making DDoc spit out (custom) 
>XML for me. But since DDoc allows for HTML Tags to be included in the 
>documentation i couldn't get it working without additional tools, and 
>thats the point where i left...

Here's an admittedly long term thought...

1.  Find out which HTML tags actually get used in DDoc.
2.  Set up DDoc so it recognises those tags, and rejects any it
    doesn't know.
3.  Extend DDoc so it can generate other formats.

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