Ddoc to PDF

[Emil Madsen]

Having two modes? - the basic standart one, and a flag switched one?

On 19 October 2010 15:14, Gerrit Wichert <gwichert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Am 17.10.2010 19:45, schrieb Walter Bright
>
> > Apparently, it is fairly simple to convert plain text files to PDF.
> >
> > http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/10/text-to-pdf.html
> >
> > Which suggests to me it should be equally simple to create a Ddoc
> > macro file to allow Ddoc to emit pdf files directly.
> >
> > Anyone want a nice weekend project to product this?
> >
>
> I don't think that it is the best idea to produce a pdf in one step.
> First PDF is really complicated (and also evolves over time).
> Second this would require dmd to determine the layout of the generated
> documentation.
>
> We could easily avoid the frist point. When we just make ddoc generating
> xsl-fo a tool like apache fop can be used to generate pdf or html from
> it. This is what xsl-fo is designed for. It's not rocket science to
> create a xsl-fo layout. But the second problem remains. If i where a
> company or community writing libraries in d i would like to have some
> corporate identity in it. This means that I want to decide over the
> layout. So i would really prefer if ddoc were *additionaly* able to
> generate a pure semantical version of the document data that is easy to
> mess with an external tool. This can be a simple xml file which i can
> feed into my own transformation pipline. This way ddoc does the part it
> can really shine on, extracting the information, and delegates the rest
> to something that knows more about the wishes of the actual user.
>
> This shuoldn't  mean that ddoc should stop generating unified standart
> documentation. But i think it is worth a thought to generate semantic
> data files on request.
>
> Gerrit
>



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// Yours sincerely
// Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
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