Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:40:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX problems; Doc. Proj. needs you! Message-ID: <19981110084056.S499@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981109201242.12427@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 08:12:42PM %2B0000 References: <19981107211415.05931@nothing-going-on.org> <19981108100712.V499@freebie.lemis.com> <19981108001932.19745@nothing-going-on.org> <19981109101642.A499@freebie.lemis.com> <19981109201242.12427@nothing-going-on.org>
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On Monday, 9 November 1998 at 20:12:42 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:16:42AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 8 November 1998 at 0:19:32 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: >>> True enough. That could just be people using similar styles, fonts, and >>> so on. >> >> Definitely. I know it's possible to use different styles and fonts >> with TeX, but a lot of people seem to find it too difficult. >> >>> It gets pretty easy to spot web pages that have been processed by >>> Norm Walsh's DocBook HTML stylesheets as well :-) >> >> Hmm. Not a recommendation. > > Yes and no. It's pretty easy to spot documents that have been written > in LinuxDoc and translated to HTML, they all have the same look and feel. > > However, there's nothing to stop people customising Norm's stylesheets, > or writing their own. That's what they say about LaTeX too. > At the moment, his are the de-facto standard for DocBook -> HTML > conversion, and they work pretty well. As doc/sgml/freebsd.dsl > shows, they can be customised and chunks can be rewritten, even by a > DSSSL neophyte like myself, which is something. OK, at least we have one person who's done it :-) >> Looks like you'd have to go via .dvi. Presumably there's a DVI driver >> for PDF. > > I don't think you need to. From what I can see, it should either be a > case of > > pdftex "&jadetex" handbook.tex > > or > > pdfjadetex handbook.tex > > I'm pretty certain one of those two should work, when JadeTeX is properly > installed. This isn't the question (you edited it out). The question was: can groff generate pdf output? From what I can see, it can generate PostScript or DVI directly, so the obvious way would be to convert the DVI to pdf. I suspect that pdftex is a script which runs TeX and then an appropriate DVI driver, so we could use the driver for groff-generated DVI as well. I don't have pdftex on my system. Where do I find it? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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