[FM Discuss] Adding LaTeX to FlossManuals.net for polishing/ layout

[adam hyde]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 10:25 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> 
>     * html2latex is a program based on the NCSA html parser. Contact:
> Nathan.Torkington at vuw.ac.nz.

its a small world. Nat is a fellow NZer and I saw him 2 weeks ago in San
Francisco. I will follow this up

thanks ed

adam



>     * Another html2latex can combine several HTML files into a single
> LaTeX file, converting links between the files to references. External
> URL's can be converted into footnotes or into a bibliography sorted on
> URL. Contact: F.J.Faase at cs.utwente.nl (Frans J. Faase)
>     * Another html2latex implemented on Linux by yacc+lex+C. Also
> available from the TSX-11 Linux FTP site as nc-html2latex-0.97.tar.gz.
> Contact: naochan at naochan.com (Naoya Tozuka)
>     * htmlatex.pl is a perl script to do the conversion (may be moving
> soon). Contact: n9146070 at cc.wwu.edu (Jake Kesinger)
>     * There is also a sed script to convert HTML into LaTeX.
> 
> >> Otherwise, did you look at what you can do with Objavi? You can produce
> >> very nice print source material (PDF) which is all controlled by CSS :
> >> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net
> >>
> >> adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 09:16 -0400, DancesWithCars wrote:
> >>> Early in the ClassActs book sprint we talked about
> >>> whether FLOSSManuals.net use of HTML would
> >>> allow the high end graphics polish that the group
> >>> was originally shooting for (a National Geographics
> >>> style).
> >>>
> >>> Having run across LaTeX recently again for something
> >>> else, it is open source and seems to be what is used
> >>> in publishing Manuscripts and Papers in the technical
> >>> areas, all the way up to the original book(s)
> >>> Knuth's Art of Programming series, so it has
> >>> the technical capability, and is open source,
> >>> though not as intuitive as one might wish.
> >>>
> >>> So, I'll put it to the communities,
> >>> can FM exporting to LaTeX be used
> >>> to polish a book, maybe as post production,
> >>> to get away from the inherent limitations
> >>> of html source for layout?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> We ended up using 4+ tools during the sprint,
> >>>
> >>> wiki.laptop.org for the planning of the document
> >>> and event
> >>> etherpad.com for the table of contents
> >>> and flossmanuals.net
> >>>
> >>> Audio Conference calls at least daily.
> >>>
> >>> Afterward, our communication seems to be on
> >>> support gang, a private list, and IRC from
> >>> FM.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> NB: I commend FM for what it's doing in making
> >>> online manuals for FLOSS, as they are sorely needed,
> >>> and look forward to a hard bound ClassActs,
> >>> even if my writing is really in there
> >>> after a week...
> >>>
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net
> >
> 
> 
> 
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