Re^3: Most printer friendly version of the documentation?

[Your Mother]

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...

[blazar]

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...)