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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/22/13 12:19 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:57:39PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/21/13 10:32 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:03:55 -0500
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/21/13 3:06 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>>> I have to admit that ddoc hasn't really done it for me (yet). I
>>>>> think the impediment is that the default output needs some work
>>>>> (mainly in CSS and indexing) before it is useful as actual
>>>>> documentation.
>>>>
>>>> We should make a few macro batteries (HTML, mobi, pdf) readily
>>>> available in e.g. tools/ or examples/.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is that possible? PDF is binary, but I thought DDoc only did text
>>> output? Come to think of it, how *do* the non-html versions of the
>>> docs currently get generated?
>>
>> LaTeX.
> [...]
>
> Speaking of which, did you manage to polish up the LaTeX macros to
> produce decent output? I'd love to take a look if you did -- I'm a LaTeX
> fan.

Yah, a start is already on github, run

make VERSION=2.061 `pwd`/web/dlangspec.pdf

from the d-programming-language.org repo.


Andrei