Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: http://pandoc.org/
It's open source. I'd assumed someone would have mentioned it by now, but no one did, so here we are :-) Best, Yawar On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 07:07:13 John Ralls wrote: > > > On Sep 1, 2015, at 3:38 AM, Ted Creedon <tcree...@easystreet.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > whats wrong with Latex? > > > > > > It works fine and produces a permuted index too > > > > Besides being even geekier and harder to convert to ePub and HTML than > > Docbook? Probably nothing much. > > > For me the geeky nature is not relevant. > > I care about an easy way to write documentation ideally wysiwym (as > opposed to wysiwyg) and > easy to merge patches. > > For latex documents I found LyX [1], which seems to be a free wysiwym > editor available on all > major platforms. I haven't found ways yet to convert from docbook to > latex, so getting started > may be a bigger hurdle here. There is dblatex but my first run failed to > do the conversion. It > may work after some more tweaking. > > The conversion to epub should not be too hard. Generating pdf from latex > is the natural flow of > things and there are lots of pdf to epub convertors around. So I presume > one of them will be > able to do the job. > > Html is less clear. There's a document (last modified in 2007) which > documents a process to > convert from latex to docbook [3] which would extend our current workflow. > I is unfortunately > based on lyx 1.2.0, which is ancient and in addition it brings in a lot of > dependencies. > > Then this page lists several latex to html converters [4]. I haven't > gotten around to test them > so I can't say much for the quality of the generated html. > > Geert > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX > http://www.lyx.org/ > [2] http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ > [3] http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ > [4] http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-LaTeX2HTML.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
