Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:34:04 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, 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: <19981109233404.64714@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19981110084056.S499@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 08:40:56AM %2B1030 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> <19981110084056.S499@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 08:40:56AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 :-) Hey, I was surprised when it worked too :-) doc/sgml/freebsd.dsl, if you're curious. > >> 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? Probably. We can certainly go from .dvi or .ps to PDF via Ghostscript. However, that's one more application the user will need to have installed (although, granted, they won't need the behemoth that is teTeX). I'll probably create a docproj-lite port for people that just want to generate HTML, RTF, and ASCII copies of the Handbook and other docs. However, one of PDFTeX's nice features is the ability to generate hyperlinks in the PDF based on the TeX HyperRef package. I'd be loathe to lose this facility. > DVI to pdf. I suspect that pdftex is a script which runs TeX Not on my system, it's a real binary. > I don't have pdftex on my system. Where do I find it? I got it as part of teTeX (ports/print/teTeX-beta). However, it just installed itself, the port 'did the right thing'. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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