Andrew McNabb wrote: > I need to solve a weird problem, and I was wondering if anyone around > here has any ideas. > > I have to be able to spit out documents from a program/script. These > documents need to look nice as a PDF (printed out on paper), and they > may include a lot of graphics and visual tweaks. In the past I've just > written out a LaTeX file, and life was great. > > Here's the twist. In addition to PDF output, I want to be able to > export to a format that others can comfortably edit. Good formats would > be something like Word or HTML. Ideally, the Word document should look > as similar as possible to the PDF document. > > The problems I'm seeing are that things like HTML are terrible for > getting consistent printed output, and things like Word are terrible for > exporting to (with graphics, etc.). Also, I would like to spend as > little time as possible tweaking this secondary file (I'll be sticking > to PDF for the most part). > > Does anyone have any thoughts? I know this sounds like too much to hope > for, but it's possible that there's some cool way to deal with this. > Let's here some ideas, both good and bad. >
What you need is a good multi-modal publishing system. Independent Study there on campus has been hunting for one of those for years--something with a friendly enough interface that the profs writing content will use it, but powerful enough that once the content is written, they can just push a button and spit out HTML, PDF, Framemaker, or whatever else they've got a template for. In my experience, RTF can be a very adequate formatting tool--especially in a Wurd environment. I don't know if there is a module for TeX or LaTeX for producing RTF docs, but it would probably be what you're looking for. -Brent -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
