From: Carl Youngblood <carlwork@...>
Date: 2005-02-08T10:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] SQLite3/Ruby 1.0.0

Jamis Buck wrote:

>>Isn't this really just a matter of turning off syntax highlighting and 
>>changing the font to monospace?  Or is it more complicated than that?
>>    
>>
>
>Well, part of it is that I don't WANT to turn off syntax highlighting.
>So...
>
>Writing PDF's is more complicated than you'd think, really. For grins,
>go to the RAA and grab one of the pdf library's (I'm playing with the
>ClibPDF bindings). It can be pretty fun to dynamically generate
>a nice-looking PDF.
>
Sounds cool.  Actually I totally expected creating a PDF to be 
difficult, but I figured that including source code in a PDF would be no 
more difficult than any other type of object you might want to put in a 
PDF.  Now that you've explained you want to keep syntax highlighting, I 
see your point.  That would certainly increase the complexity of the 
problem.  Perhaps a rough version of textile->PDF conversion could start 
with basic uncolored monospace text and get more fancy later on.

Carl