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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
