On Sun, 25 May 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 2008/5/25 Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> It has been an issue for 10 years now. > > > > Exactly. There are 4 converters: > > > > Latex2html - a huge perl script which needs more time and memory than God > > needed to create the earth, to convert the docs. We dumped it because > > it simply takes too long. It's good for small documents (articles), but > > not for books. > > > > tex4ht - Was very good, but has some issues. Problem is that it's no longer > > maintained, and is no longer included in e.g. SuSE. > > > > Hevea - also good, but is written in objective caml (and I thought Pascal > > was considered obscure) > > so it also doesn't install easily on a SuSE system. > > > > tex2rtf - Very good, fast. But only supports a subset of latex, not enough > > for the documentation. > > > Is there a good latex to docbook converter? DocBook to HTML seems > pretty good (well, the examples I have seen) If so, maybe it can be a > two step process. latex -> docbook -> html The process usually is docbook -> latex, not the other way round... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel