debiandoc-sgml: please support PDF output
Package: debiandoc-sgml
Version: all
Severity: wishlist
Currently, I am able to create PDF out of debiandoc sources with the
following commands (from a Makefile):
install.pdf: install.sgml
debiandoc2latex2e -O $^ > install.latex2e
pdflatex install.latex2e
pdflatex install.latex2e
rm -f install.latex2e
However, this is suboptimal for two reasons. For one, it is
suboptimal since by the pattern of the other debiandoc2* scripts,
there should be a debiandoc2pdf (or debiandoc2pdflatex?).
Second, it is suboptimal since it does not exploit the linking
functionality present in PDFs. 'pdflatex' in conjunction with
hyperref has built-in support for these. So it might call for you to
hack the latex functionality in debiandoc to use the hyperref package.
See the jadetex package for examples on how to do this.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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