On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:57:25AM +0100, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One problem I have with my exiting ikiwiki/markdown knowledge bases is > > that markdown doesn't have a really solid, good-looking (via LaTeX) > > PDF output mechanism, meaning that you can't produce printed > > documentation. > > You can produce great printed documentation from markdown & HTML with > something like http://princexml.com/
That's non-Free software, and IMO is a LOT worse than LaTeX. FWIW I strongly prefer html2ps (over prince) for Latin 1 HTML -- html2ps doesn't support anything but Latin 1 and Japanese encodings. Then again, I don't recall getting Hangul working with Prince either... > > Wikis are also non-linear, which also causes problems when you try to > > produce printed documentation (which is inherently linear). > > Well, I think most people understand and like hyperlinks, even in > print mediums like PDF. I respectfully disagree with "like". If I buy a manual, I expect to be able to read it from start to finish, not to have to jump from page 2 to page 17 to page 83 to page 4. Maybe that's just me. I've wandered off topic, so I'll say no more in this thread. _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
