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digitalmars.D - Docbook templates for ddoc?

reply "David Wilson" <dw botanicus.net> writes:
Does anyone know if such things exist? It's probably simply enough to
just reimplement anyway. To be clear, that's for converting from ddoc
documentation to something like
http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/docbook.html

Thanks,


David.
Nov 30 2007
parent reply BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:
David Wilson wrote:
...

On that note; what ever happended to the LaTeX vertion of the D docs 
that Walter was looking into?
Nov 30 2007
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
BCS wrote:

 On that note; what ever happended to the LaTeX vertion of the D docs 
 that Walter was looking into?


It has (at the moment) foundered on the shoals of my not knowing Latex 
very well at all. In fact, about all I can do with it is use a template 
that Andrei was kind enough to make for me <g>.

P.S. Part of my problems with Latex stem from it simply not working 
under Windows. All kinds of freezes and crashes, nonsensical error 
messages, and extension packages that won't install. Obviously, to use 
Latex you need to be running on Linux. I am running ubuntu now, but am 
not motivated at the moment to pick up Latex again.
Nov 30 2007
next sibling parent reply BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:
Walter Bright wrote:

 BCS wrote:
 

 On that note; what ever happended to the LaTeX vertion of the D docs 
 that Walter was looking into?


 
 
 It has (at the moment) foundered on the shoals of my not knowing Latex 
 very well at all. In fact, about all I can do with it is use a template 
 that Andrei was kind enough to make for me <g>.
 
 P.S. Part of my problems with Latex stem from it simply not working 
 under Windows. All kinds of freezes and crashes, nonsensical error 
 messages, and extension packages that won't install. Obviously, to use 
 Latex you need to be running on Linux. I am running ubuntu now, but am 
 not motivated at the moment to pick up Latex again.


Publish what you have darn it! <said in a joking tone>

Is the whole D spec in the dsource svn repo? If you put it there along 
with the ddoc templates I'm sure someone would pick it up.
Nov 30 2007
parent Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
BCS wrote:

 Publish what you have darn it! <said in a joking tone>
 
 Is the whole D spec in the dsource svn repo? If you put it there along 
 with the ddoc templates I'm sure someone would pick it up.


Putting the doc in svn is probably the next step.
Dec 01 2007
prev sibling parent reply ns <ns dummy.com> writes:
Which LaTex software package (distro ?) on windows do you use ? I use 
MikTex, its amazing and always works, and installs latex packages on the fly.

-ns


Walter Bright wrote:

 BCS wrote:

 On that note; what ever happended to the LaTeX vertion of the D docs 
 that Walter was looking into?


 
 It has (at the moment) foundered on the shoals of my not knowing Latex 
 very well at all. In fact, about all I can do with it is use a template 
 that Andrei was kind enough to make for me <g>.
 
 P.S. Part of my problems with Latex stem from it simply not working 
 under Windows. All kinds of freezes and crashes, nonsensical error 
 messages, and extension packages that won't install. Obviously, to use 
 Latex you need to be running on Linux. I am running ubuntu now, but am 
 not motivated at the moment to pick up Latex again.
Nov 30 2007
next sibling parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
ns wrote:

 Which LaTex software package (distro ?) on windows do you use ? I use 
 MikTex, its amazing and always works, and installs latex packages on the 
 fly.
 


I second that.  MikTex is great.
I've never had any problems with cygwin's latex either, though.


 -ns
 
 
 Walter Bright wrote:

 BCS wrote:

 On that note; what ever happended to the LaTeX vertion of the D docs 
 that Walter was looking into?


 It has (at the moment) foundered on the shoals of my not knowing Latex 
 very well at all. In fact, about all I can do with it is use a 
 template that Andrei was kind enough to make for me <g>.

 P.S. Part of my problems with Latex stem from it simply not working 
 under Windows. All kinds of freezes and crashes, nonsensical error 
 messages, and extension packages that won't install. Obviously, to use 
 Latex you need to be running on Linux. I am running ubuntu now, but am 
 not motivated at the moment to pick up Latex again.
Nov 30 2007
prev sibling next sibling parent Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
ns wrote:

 Which LaTex software package (distro ?) on windows do you use ? I use
 MikTex, its amazing and always works, and installs latex packages on the
 fly.
 
 -ns
 
 
 Walter Bright wrote:

 BCS wrote:

 On that note; what ever happended to the LaTeX vertion of the D docs
 that Walter was looking into?


 It has (at the moment) foundered on the shoals of my not knowing Latex
 very well at all. In fact, about all I can do with it is use a
 template that Andrei was kind enough to make for me <g>.

 P.S. Part of my problems with Latex stem from it simply not working
 under Windows. All kinds of freezes and crashes, nonsensical error
 messages, and extension packages that won't install. Obviously, to use
 Latex you need to be running on Linux. I am running ubuntu now, but am
 not motivated at the moment to pick up Latex again.




Temporarily dropping my no-posting self-censure (that didn't take
long!), I just did my honours thesis using MikTeX, and it flawlessly
handled LaTeX, plain TeX and CWEB.  I also used various packages with
LaTeX, all of which it located and installed for me without a hitch.

On the other hand, I've never been able to successfully use the Cygwin
TeX packages.

Ok, shutting up again :)

	-- Daniel
Nov 30 2007
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:
ns wrote:

 Which LaTex software package (distro ?) on windows do you use ? I use 
 MikTex, its amazing and always works, and installs latex packages on the 
 fly.


I used miktex, which refuses to install some packages one the fly (I had 
to download and unzip them manually), and the viewer crashes/locks up on 
even simple files.
Dec 01 2007