Re: Maintaining documents in multiple formats

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Maintaining documents in multiple formats
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Bill Jonas wrote:

> LinuxDoc/DocBook/SGML. Also, I noticed xml2doc in portage, but it
> appears that there's only been one release, and that was nearly a year
> ago, and I have no idea how the PDFs it creates look. Note that I don't


There's been a few releases of xml2doc now. I have also been meaning to
try it since it was "intended to be a lightweight version of DocBook". The
author of xml2doc works on some open source projects that I work on too.

> Longer explanation, including stuff I've already tried: I currently
> maintain my resume in HTML. I use w3m to convert it to text and htmldoc
> to convert it to PDF. The main problem is that htmldoc is the only
> HTML-to-PDF converter I know of, and I think it does a rather ugly
> job[1]. Also, I tend to need to do some minor editing on the text
> version when I generate it.


I use html2ps and then ps2pdf to generate invoices. You may want to try
it.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

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