Whoops, never mind, I see now I hit send too fast. Pandoc is mentioned in another related thread.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Yawar Amin <yawar.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
