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



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