- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:30:31 -0400
- To: TOMMY DEWALD <DEWALD.TOMMY@epamail.epa.gov>
- CC: www-html-editor@w3.org
TOMMY DEWALD wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just spent some time downloading and printing the 4.0 specs for
> reference here in the office. While I was doing so, I was wondering
> how you manage the master 4.0 spec document while providing copies
> in many different formats, e.g., eps, html, pdf, ascii. We are developing a
> large document that we'll want to serve through the Web in different
> formats much as the 4.0 spec.
The master is indeed in HTML 4.0:
HTML -> Text by the Lynx browser.
HTML -> Postscript: "html2ps"
http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
PS -> PDF: ps2pdf in LInux
> Do you use MS Word or some other tool to make edits to the master
> document?
No, the HTML produced by those tools is not good enough. We write
some by hand and generate the rest using perl scripts.
> Once you've made these edits, how do you re-create the other formats
> from the updated master document?
We use make files and the aforementioned converters.
_Ian
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Received on Monday, 5 April 1999 17:30:43 UTC