From: David Douthitt <DDouthitt@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T06:20:56+09:00
Subject: Re: rdtool and rdoc

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I don't know xml or xslt; what if I wanted a file in a printable format - s=
uch as pdf, rtf, ps, or unvarnished single-page html?  I prefer PDF for mos=
t things.

>>> Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com 7/22/02 3:33PM >>>
"David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@cuna.coop> writes:

> The RDoc result is heavily frames-based and seems specifically
> designed for Web-access.  It's cute and quite usable in the Web
> context, but likely not as easily accessible outside of the Web.

That's just the default. RDoc also generates Windows .chm files
(actually quite nice) and can generate linear xml and rdf. Given the
XML you could XSLT up any style output you wanted. David Black has
also contributed some xslfo stuff that generates decent printed
output.

Cheers


Dave

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