Bug#271951: debian-installer-manual: please document how to typeset manual in PDF using free tools
Hoi Frans,
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:30, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > I've typeset the installer manual in PostScript and PDF, since I like to
> > read big documents like this one from paper. This required some
> > hacking. It'd be cool if a note on how to do this (like this bugreport)
> > was shipped with the sources. Or perhaps you'd like to ship a PDF with
> > the .deb itself. Anyway, this is what I did:
>
> Thank you very much for working on this and providing us with a way to
> generate a PS/PDF version of the manual using free tools.
Beware: my patch cripples the table in 2.1.1 "Supported Architectures".
> Your timing is
> excellent as we are working towards the Sarge-release of d-i.
> You can be sure we will use your information, probably by incorporating it
> in the standard build system so we can provide these versions standard
> alongside the html version.
Cool!
> I have one question for you.
> Do you have any idea if it will be possible to use your method for other
> languages than English? I'm thinking especially of Japanese, and to a
> lesser degree Russian, Czech and Greek because of the different character
> sets.
O, I've no experience typesetting non-european documents...
> I will probably work on this next week during the d-i devcamp in Oldenburg.
Happy Hacking!
Groeten,
Joost
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