On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:26:48 -0400, Don <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Does ddoc output in pdf? And besides, most of the tags *are* html
tags, they're even the same tag name. I can't imagine there's no
htmltopdf program that would do exactly that.
The reason they're the same is that the docs were originally written in
html. The original conversion to ddoc was done via search and replace.
One of the HUGE benefits of ddoc is that it does highlighting of the D
code. That instantly saved Walter a lot of time.
Seriously, converting it to ddoc did improve productivity.
Oh, I totally agree for the code samples. And some of the other macros
like $(V1).
But the manual markup, like marking every paragraph like this:
$(P This is some text that is in a paragraph, and for some reason, we
need a special
tag for it instead of using <p>, one that is hard to find the
closing
tag for, because every tag's closing tag is simply a lone close
parentheses
like this:)
doesn't really make much difference than using <p>...</p>. The advantage
of using html tags for formatting like this means editors will recognize
tags, and everyone and their mother knows what html tags look like.
-Steve
