[Bf-docboard] wiki --> PDF

[none none]

great, made a comment over there pointing to the pdf conversion page on the wiki

Also would be good if i could have write access to the wiki to keep
the page about the converter updated, who do i talk to about that?

And finally, If i do get the bugs fixed and get it slightly better
formatted it would be good to get it running on the server,
alternatively if a zip containing the wiki was made available
somewhere that would speed things up (downloading the whole wiki using
wget is a bit crap:) )

Finally, I notice that lots of pages are not actually well formed xml
even though they claim to be xhtml, this is classed as a recoverable
error but really should be fixed in the source... I have no experience
with wikis but I'm guessing it is the fault of the mediawiki software
since people edit the wiki in an abstract format not the html, is the
server using the latest mediawiki version?



On 26/04/06, Bart Veldhuizen <bart at vrotvrot.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> for encouragement, I'll mention that there is a lot of interest in a PDF
> version of the manual:
>
> http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/20/download-the-blender-manual/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart
>
>
>
>
> Op 26-apr-2006, om 14:55 heeft Alastair Mason het volgende geschreven:
>
>
> I took 2 minutes to put you email up on the wiki pritty much as is.
> hopefully they will give you write access soon and you can change what ever
> you need to ;)
>
> thanks for you efforts
> al
>
>
> On 4/24/06, none none <lots.of.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've tidied up my script a little bit so here's the first release, a
> > number of things a broke, including but not limited to:
> >
> > 1) images float around in odd places
> > 2) notes dont linewrap for some reason
> > 3) long monospaced lines dont line wrap
> > 4) tables are not yet implemented
> >
> > Here are all the files you will need:
> >
> > http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/Makefile
> > http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/blender.xsl
> > http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/structure_en.xml
> > http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/structure_it.xml
> >
> > If you want to see what the result is like so far then have a look at:
> >
> > http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/manual_en.pdf
> > http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/manual_it.pdf
> >
> >
> > I was going to make a page on the wiki explaining how to run it but it
> > seemed to be protected so I'll give a description here and someone
> > with the right level of access can put it on the web.
> >
> > first you need to download all the html pages for a given translation
> > and the images in the uploads directory, this can be done via "make
> > download" in the script
> >
> > then you either run "make en" or "make it" depending on what language you
> want.
> >
> > The script requires saxon to run the XSLT script that turns the wiki
> > into latex, and then it requires pdflatex to turn the latex into a
> > pdf. The "make download" requires wget
> >
> >
> > All that needs to be done now is to fix the few remaining bugs and
> > then do a bit of styling on it to make it look a bit more trendy and
> > less 1960's maths text book :)
> >
> > Comments, questions and help are all appreciated
> >
> > Alex
> >
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