On 10/18/10 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
Alix Pexton wrote:
After a lot of thought, I have come to the conclusion that giving DDoc
the power required to calculate layout in a way that is general enough
to be used not only by PDF but by any other layout technology, and the
ability to work with a flattened tree, is a non starter.
Perhaps you're right. But it strikes me as possible that a Ddoc template
that emits the text in some custom format, which is then read by a
custom pdf generator program, could work. In other words, a two step
process.
Presuming that custom format is HTML then this is close to actuality.
During the look 'n' feel changes for d-programming-language.org I
experimented with using wkhtmltopdf
(http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/) to generate PDF versions of the
documentation using the print CSS styles. Besides a couple of defects
to do with page numbering the results looked very good.
