Re: Most printer friendly version of the documentation?

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Re^2: Most printer friendly version of the documentation? by blazar (Canon) on Aug 07, 2008 at 18:57 UTC
I personally believe that as an old time LaTeX aficionado, I should second your suggestion. (I installed TeXLive on this very pc only a few days ago, BTW.) While the same remark as the one I wrote in reply to kyle's comment applies, one difference is that I didn't know about Pod::LaTeX, (Incidentally, you spelled it wrong and may want to correct it...) which is a further reason why I have to thank you. I presume it may turn out very useful... `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Most printer friendly version of the documentation? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 07, 2008 at 20:22 UTC
I've been considering trying to do this sort of thing as a program -- Andy Lester says he'll write me out of his will if I say "script" -- with two basic goals: 1) Roll up all the core docs as a LaTeX "book" document, 2) do the same with an arbitrary path, or paths, like for a local install. Then it could be kept as PDF or printed (or even perfect bound at an on demand print shop). It's about 5th on my list of "fun" projects though and I'm plenty short on the old tuits...	[reply]
Re^4: Most printer friendly version of the documentation? by blazar (Canon) on Aug 08, 2008 at 08:10 UTC
I personally believe that it would indeed be a valuable and instructive project. You may be interested to know that someone in ctt completed a somewhat similar project for LaTeX itself: except that it was easier for a ready made copy of `source2e.pdf` is already available off CTAN and in most modern distros. This guy, Tim Arnold, successfully had it professionally printed as a hardcopy version. Anyway, wouldn't it be nice if CPAN offered a pdf rendering of pods on the fly too? (Of course I know nothing about possible inherent difficulties to implement such a functionality...) `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Most printer friendly version of the documentation? by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Aug 08, 2008 at 10:05 UTC
Thanx for your spelling correction - which has, as you are probably already aware, been made. FWIW, I (currently) use MiKTeX and TeXnicCenter on XP - I'm anticipating using a Linux box in the not too distant future - back to something approaching an OS of choice:-)) A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]


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