From: bjsp123@... (Benjamin Peterson) Date: 2004-11-27T19:22:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby/DL tutorial Byron Clark wrote in message news:<20041126171259.GA22910@tiny.utcsuperset.com>... > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:52:56AM +0900, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > bjsp123@imap.cc (Benjamin Peterson) wrote in message news:<986d2608.04112 > 41040.7a4ea886@posting.google.com>... > > > Would there be any takers if I made a rough English translation of > > > the Ruby/DL tutorial at http://ttsky.net/ruby/ruby-dl.html? > > > > Well, that's a lot of takers. Trouble is, I am having difficulty in > > converting the pdf to a usable form (ie HTML -- even MS Word would > > do). I tried pdftohtml.exe and the adobe online pdf-to-html service, > > and they both choked on it completely. > > > > It looks like google does a pretty good conversion to html for that doc. > Sorry about the long link. > > http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:5ijaNMyJozIJ:ttsky.net/ruby/ruby-dl- > doc-ja/rbdl.pdf+&hl=en > Wow, that's rather impressive... well done google. Trouble is, every single line is in a seperate div tag with absolute positioning, which makes it look just like the pdf, but when it gets translated every line will have to be fixed to be the right length -- a task far bigger than the translation. I think I'll just adopt the following methodology: 1 -- Cut and paste into vim. 2 -- Apply basic h1 and h2 tags in about the right place. 3 -- Indent the code samples with a little sprinkle o' vim magic. 4 -- Translate it. 5 -- (optional) Go on a mystic quest to discover why anyone creates a document and then pdf encrypts it in the first place. So, I'll probably do that for Monday. Benjamin