Using LaTex for Documentation

[Yawar Amin]

Whoops, never mind, I see now I hit send too fast. Pandoc is mentioned in
another related thread.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter:
> http://pandoc.org/
>
> It's open source. I'd assumed someone would have mentioned it by now, but
> no one did, so here we are :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Yawar
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Geert Janssens <
> geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 01 September 2015 07:07:13 John Ralls wrote:
>> > > On Sep 1, 2015, at 3:38 AM, Ted Creedon <tcreedon at easystreet.net>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > whats wrong with Latex?
>> > >
>> > > It works fine and produces a permuted index too
>> >
>> > Besides being even geekier and harder to convert to ePub and HTML than
>> > Docbook? Probably nothing much.
>> >
>> For me the geeky nature is not relevant.
>>
>> I care about an easy way to write documentation ideally wysiwym (as
>> opposed to wysiwyg) and
>> easy to merge patches.
>>
>> For latex documents I found LyX [1], which seems to be a free wysiwym
>> editor available on all
>> major platforms. I haven't found ways yet to convert from docbook to
>> latex, so getting started
>> may be a bigger hurdle here. There is dblatex but my first run failed to
>> do the conversion. It
>> may work after some more tweaking.
>>
>> The conversion to epub should not be too hard. Generating pdf from latex
>> is the natural flow of
>> things and there are lots of pdf to epub convertors around. So I presume
>> one of them will be
>> able to do the job.
>>
>> Html is less clear. There's a document (last modified in 2007) which
>> documents a process to
>> convert from latex to docbook [3] which would extend our current
>> workflow. I is unfortunately
>> based on lyx 1.2.0, which is ancient and in addition it brings in a lot
>> of dependencies.
>>
>> Then this page lists several latex to html converters [4]. I haven't
>> gotten around to test them
>> so I can't say much for the quality of the generated html.
>>
>> Geert
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX
>>     http://www.lyx.org/
>> [2] http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
>> [3] http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/
>> [4] http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-LaTeX2HTML.html
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