Bug#271951: debian-installer-manual: please document how to typeset manual in PDF using free tools

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

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Hello Joost,

My excuses for not responding sooner to your mails. I was at a Debian 
Installer development meeting last Wednesday to Sunday and when your first 
mail came in we did not have e-mail temporarily.

Nikolas Prokoschenko and I have made a lot of progress on the pdf issue.

The table problem was solved (somewhat by accident) by using 'openjade' 
instead of 'jade' to generate the tex documents.

We have also done some work on making the layout better (paragraph 
numbering, footnotes, borders around warnings).
There also was a problem with monospaced text, but that was solved by a 
recent update of tetex-bin to 2.0.2-22 in Sarge.

We are currently working on a new build system and using .po files for 
translation.

The Japanese issue still remains to be solved. But we think asking the 
Japanese translator and lists will probably the easiest solution for that. 
Also, we can always fall back to FOP, if it's only for Japanese.

Anyway, check out our new scripts and stylesheets, which can be found at
http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/manual/
in './build/new-generation/'.
Note that these are scripts in development and will probably change before 
we implement this new buildsystem.

You can preview the current Dutch :-) translation (about 25% done) here:
http://home.tiscali.nl/isildur/d-i/install.nl.pdf

Thanks for all your work on this,

Frans
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