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Bil Kleb

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Jan 25, 2005, 4:43:17 PM1/25/05
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I'm still pining for PDF output from RedCloth and
am seeking advice:

David Black has an experimental to_docbook in RedCloth CVS

Instiki has to_latex in it's RedCloth

I like the idea of going directly to LaTeX so that I
can embed (La)TeX mathematics somehow.

Is there another route I should be investigating to get
both HTML and PDF output from my Textile markup?

Thanks as always,
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Bil Kleb, Hampton, Virginia
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov <- thanks to Jamis and Why

Alexey Verkhovsky

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Jan 25, 2005, 5:04:02 PM1/25/05
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Bil Kleb wrote:

> I'm still pining for PDF output from RedCloth and
> am seeking advice:

Will Ware posted some script at
http://www.instiki.org/show/Instiki2Docbook, that may be of interest to you.

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Best regards,

Alexey Verkhovsky

Ruby Forum: http://ruby-forum.org (moderator)
RForum: http://rforum.andreas-s.net (co-author)
Instiki: http://instiki.org (maintainer)

James Britt

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Jan 25, 2005, 7:51:36 PM1/25/05
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Bil Kleb wrote:
> I'm still pining for PDF output from RedCloth and
> am seeking advice:
>
> David Black has an experimental to_docbook in RedCloth CVS
>
> Instiki has to_latex in it's RedCloth
>
> I like the idea of going directly to LaTeX so that I
> can embed (La)TeX mathematics somehow.
>
> Is there another route I should be investigating to get
> both HTML and PDF output from my Textile markup?

Does the Textile have information that is not in the resulting (X)HTML?
Why not do an (X)HTML -> PDF converter, and then any app that creates
proper (X)HTML can use it?


James


Martin DeMello

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Jan 27, 2005, 12:49:04 PM1/27/05
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Bil Kleb <Bil....@nasa.gov> wrote:
> I'm still pining for PDF output from RedCloth and
> am seeking advice:
>
> Instiki has to_latex in it's RedCloth
>
> I like the idea of going directly to LaTeX so that I
> can embed (La)TeX mathematics somehow.

Also, there are pretty well-used toolchains for the LaTeX -> PDF route,
so it's likely you can just drop something in. The con side is that
distributing it crossplatformly gets problematic - the average windows
box has neither TeX nor ps2pdf. (I'm experiencing a similar problem with
an ascii | lout | gs > pdf program of mine - the end users are very
nontechnical, and I have to come up with a good way of distributing it.)

martin

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