[Qgis-developer] proposal for migrating QGIS documentation to reST/Sphinx

[Wenzeslaus]

Hi,
I think that pdf should be generated from latex source, because latex
is the best tool for producing pdf (IMHO).

So conversion from rst to latex is necessary. But I know it is not easy task.

Wenzeslaus


On 9 January 2012 22:38, Yves Jacolin (free) <yjacolin at free.fr> wrote:
> Le lundi 9 janvier 2012 22:27:46, Ivan Mincik a écrit :
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Yves Jacolin (free) <yjacolin at free.fr>
> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > As I said before, I can help to migrate documentation to rst. I am using
>> > rst frequently for all the documentation so it is not a problem for me.
>> >
>> > The only issue I see is to create nice PDF documentation. I tested
>> > rst2odt which could help with pdf generator inside OOo but the rst2odt
>> > writer in sphonx does'nt exist. So we need to find a good solution. I
>> > tested one with my gdal documentation but this is not the way I will
>> > use.
>> >
>> > Sphinx can create PDF files but this is **really** difficult to change
>> > the design.
>> >
>> > If any Python guru can add rst2odt writer to sphinx it will really help!
>>
>> Maybe I do not understand your post correctly, what about to use rst2pdf ?
>>
> Ivan,
>
> Sphinx use rst2pdf to create pdf file, as said before, this is really a pain to
> customize design.
>
> Y.
> --
> Yves Jacolin
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