On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an acquaintance who who maintains some reference document in > various forms. He produces identical documents in HTML PDF and DOC > formats.
There are so many ways to do this :-) Unix was created to be a "text processing system", so you can start with groff and nroff; wonderful quality output but ugly as to use. I tend to use asciidoc a lot, it's a reasonable mix of "just text" and structured layout that produces decent output in many different formats. I usually output text, PDF and HTML in each run (i.e. every time I save the file, using a hook in the editor to just run 'make', that gets the PDF viewer to update the "high quality" view in near real-time) Of course, you won't get the output of these tools to match the current output document's layout without an unreasonable amount of work, and that's often the biggest battle with an end-user - accepting that layout is not their job. -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
