From: Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: javadoc => adadoc?
Date: 1998/08/18
Date: 1998-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35D9C1B1.F07197DC@earthling.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2ogtjk4ty.fsf@wf-rch.cirr.com
LaTex seems to be quite common on unix systems, but I haven't
encountered any LaTex tools on Windows. I haven't been looking hard,
but they sure aren't obtrusive!
Maybe XML will develop into something that can handle this.
Texinfo I haven't heard of before (that I remember). Is it related to
TEX? (tEX? however Knuth spelled it, anyway).
Corey Minyard wrote:
>
> Peter Hermann <ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>
> > Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net> wrote:
> > > engine). What is needed is some way of marking index entries, and a way
> > > to generate
> >
> > agreed
> >
> > > (rtf?)
> >
> > disagree (from the frying pan into the fire): rtf is a monster
> >
> > > text with the index entries tied to page numbers
> > > (which must be determined at print time).
> >
> > agree.
> >
> > A simplified html is not that bad.
> >
> > I am still in search for a html-supporting utility which would
> > support automatic page division and numbering with automatic indexing
> > and crossreferencing in order to ease the making of paper documentation
> > e.g. books with TOC, index, cross-refs.
> >
>
> Use LaTeX and translate it to HTML with latex2html. It does all these
> things (and more). I use it quite a bit. Plus you can get very nice
> printed documents from it. Texinfo does this stuff, too, but I have
> never used the texinfo to HTML tools.
>
> --
> Corey Minyard Internet: minyard@acm.org
> Work: minyard@nortel.ca UUCP: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com
--
Charles Hixson charleshixson@earthling.net
(510) 464-7733 or chixso@mtc.dst.ca.us
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-31 0:00 javadoc => adadoc? nelson
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-01 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-08-03 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1998-08-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-08-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson [this message]
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Simon Wright
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