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From: Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: javadoc => adadoc?
Date: 1998/08/18
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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

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