It may be a bit offtopic, but it's something I am very proud about ;-)
Here are a few images of a book that was typeset using sphinx and rst2pdf.
The binding and printing are (intentionally!) cheap, because it's meant as an experiment to produce programming books for those who can't afford traditional books: The cost may be as low as U$S 2 per 120-page book, while most "traditional" 400-page programming books cost, in Argentina, about U$S 50.
Best regards,
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> It may be a bit offtopic, but it's something I am very proud about ;-)
> Here are a few images of a book that was typeset using sphinx and rst2pdf.
> The binding and printing are (intentionally!) cheap, because it's meant as
> an
> experiment to produce programming books for those who can't afford
> traditional
> books: The cost may be as low as U$S 2 per 120-page book, while most
> "traditional" 400-page programming books cost, in Argentina, about U$S 50.
> Best regards,
> --
> ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina
> `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) KDE Developer (MFCH)
> (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar > _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' The 6,855th most popular site of Slovenia
> (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' according to alexa.com (27/5/2007)
-- ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) KDE Developer (MFCH) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' The 6,855th most popular site of Slovenia (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' according to alexa.com (27/5/2007)
> On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote: >> Hm, looks like the images didn't reach the list. Could you upload them >> somewhere and share the links?
On Monday 07 September 2009 18:56:09 Tim Michelsen wrote:
> > Here are a few images of a book that was typeset using sphinx and > > rst2pdf.
> So, is this builder already stable?
It is stable in the sense that if it processes your docs, it should not stop doing it (if I know about them).
Other than that... YMWV.
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: > On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote: > > Hm, looks like the images didn't reach the list. Could you upload them > > somewhere and share the links? > Just forgot to paste them :-) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralsina/tags/libro/
This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to the formatting or composing the text and that you could share?
Also, is there a schedule for merging in rst2pdf? I am sure that everybody will want to use it after seeing that book.
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote: >> > Hm, looks like the images didn't reach the list. Could you upload them >> > somewhere and share the links?
> This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to > the formatting or composing the text and that you could share?
> Also, is there a schedule for merging in rst2pdf? I am sure that > everybody will want to use it after seeing that book.
I think a merging is not required. rst2pdf can be an external dependency like docutils (but optional), and the Sphinx builder will be contained in rst2pdf.
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 05:04:20 Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: > > On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote: > > > Hm, looks like the images didn't reach the list. Could you upload them > > > somewhere and share the links?
> This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to > the formatting or composing the text and that you could share?
Yes, that printers want things rst2pdf doesn't do yet (like "break chapters to an odd page" or "start counting from the 12th page", so I will be adding those.
> Also, is there a schedule for merging in rst2pdf? I am sure that > everybody will want to use it after seeing that book.
It is now included with rst2pdf in SVN.
I don't expect it to be merged into sphinx. The thinking is, you are going to need rst2pdf for it to do anything, so it can be a sphinx extension shipped with rst2pdf.
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> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 05:04:20 Gael Varoquaux wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: >> > On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote: >> > > Hm, looks like the images didn't reach the list. Could you upload them >> > > somewhere and share the links?
>> This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to >> the formatting or composing the text and that you could share?
> Yes, that printers want things rst2pdf doesn't do yet (like "break chapters to > an odd page" or "start counting from the 12th page", so I will be adding > those.
>> Also, is there a schedule for merging in rst2pdf? I am sure that >> everybody will want to use it after seeing that book.
> It is now included with rst2pdf in SVN.
> I don't expect it to be merged into sphinx. The thinking is, you are going to > need rst2pdf for it to do anything, so it can be a sphinx extension shipped > with rst2pdf.
Exactly. I didn't even think of distributing it this way, but now it seems to me to be the most natural one :)
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Georg Brandl wrote: > Exactly. I didn't even think of distributing it this way, but now it seems to > me to be the most natural one :)
Sounds great. Both of you have done an excellent job.
This is without wordaxe, which has some issues right now, so there is no hyphenation or kerning.
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>>> So, is this builder already stable? >> It is stable in the sense that if it processes your docs, it should not >> stop doing it (if I know about them).
Thanks. Cool. Where could I find a tutorial on how to activate this builder?
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:04:28 Tim Michelsen wrote:
> >>> So, is this builder already stable?
> >> It is stable in the sense that if it processes your docs, it should not > >> stop doing it (if I know about them).
> Thanks. Cool. > Where could I find a tutorial on how to activate this builder?
Get rst2pdf from SVN at http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com, then check the manual (use manual.txt, manual.pdf is only generated on releases), specifically the "Sphinx" section.
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> Get rst2pdf from SVN at http://rst2pdf.googlecode.com, then check the manual > (use manual.txt, manual.pdf is only generated on releases), specifically the > "Sphinx" section.
> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 05:04:20 Gael Varoquaux wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: >> > On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote: >> This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to >> the formatting or composing the text and that you could share? > Yes, that printers want things rst2pdf doesn't do yet (like "break > chapters to an odd page" or "start counting from the 12th page", so I > will be adding those.
This is why for "large" projects like a book I still recommend the way via LaTeX. You get more than 20 years of expertise in desktop publishing for free.
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 03:36:55 Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2009-09-08, Roberto Alsina wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 05:04:20 Gael Varoquaux wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: > >> > On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoņez wrote:
> >> This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to > >> the formatting or composing the text and that you could share?
> > Yes, that printers want things rst2pdf doesn't do yet (like "break > > chapters to an odd page" or "start counting from the 12th page", so I > > will be adding those.
> This is why for "large" projects like a book I still recommend the way > via LaTeX. You get more than 20 years of expertise in desktop > publishing for free.
Right. However, it's not as if those things are horribly hard, and I think there is a niche for a non-latex typesetting tool in the free software world, and I really don't think open office is it ;-)
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