Le jeudi 25 décembre 2008 à 21:03 -0800, Graham Percival a écrit : > I'm trying to decide how to build the new website. In particular, > I'd like to be able to create pdfs as well as the html.
Good idea! > I currently see four options: > 1) Build the website with texinfo and texi2html. With sufficient > stylesheets and texi2html hacking, I think this is /possible/, but > I don't know how much appetite there is for this. I would only > touch the content, not presentation, of course. The HTML used in current website is quite simple, it even doesn't have <html> and <head> elements, it won't be hard to generate it from texi2html. LilyPond contributors are already familiar with Texinfo, so it's not much of a trouble for writers either. I second Werner on going for this way. > 3) Use one of these newfangled langauges like SGML or docbook or > whatever to produce pdf and html. I really don't like the idea of > adding another language to the project, though. Agreed, and Docbook developers even reported on bug-texinfo or help-texinfo list they'd like to convert Docbook to Texinfo in order to get decent PDF output(!). > 4) Abandon the "complete website as pdf" idea and just give > people a tarball of the website for off-online browsing. This is the easiest to do of course, but even this require a little work: creating an "offline" option to avoid stripping HTML and graphics file name extensions. It's a long time I've been thinking about the possibility to make the website browsable offline, I'm willing to do it in the coming weeks. > Particular parts of the website I'd like to have available > offline: > - the crash course and short tour in Introduction. > - the essay about typesetting in the About > - the FAQ, publication list, acknowledgements > - getting help I think the FAQ needn't be in PDF; in other words I'll never rewrite it in Texinfo myself. Other parts you mentioned should be available in PDF IMO. > And to be > honest, it's not like the pdfs that texinfo produces are fantastic > examples of typesetting, either. Certainly, but they are better than many other alternatives. I've heard of some Texinfo->LaTeX converter, but I've never tested it. Cheers, John _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
