From: "Horacio López" <vruz@...>
Date: 2002-01-28T08:30:39+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: tools for creating documentation

----- Original Message -----
From: "Niklas Frykholm" <r2d2@acc.umu.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: OT: tools for creating documentation


> [Phil Tomson]:
> > I'm going to be creating a good bit of documentation for TaskMaster and
I
> > want to easily be able to have it available in several formats including
> > html, postscript and perhaps TeX.  I'm curious as to what tools other
> > people are using for such tasks?
>
> I usually use
>
>   XML/Custom -> HTML
>              -> LaTeX  -> postscript
>                    -> pdf
[snip]
> I then create custom parsers based on REXML to convert the XML source
> into HTML and LaTeX. I use the same parsers for all similar documents,
> i.e., one for letters, one for articles, etc. From LaTeX I generate
> postscript and pdf using standard tools.
>
> // Niklas

by any chance... is the XML-to-LaTeX converter publicly available ?

thanks,
                 vruz