Re: [PHP4BETA] best form of php documentation

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:38:15AM +0200, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > To build a PDF manual out of the XML source is very difficult and at the
> > time impossible. There is one solution, but most of the links are missing.
> 
> lets say it is by now impossible to build a PDF manual that is
> using all the features a PDF Document could have 
> 
> but the default Makefile within phpdoc should now make it possible
> to say 'make pdf' using the longer way 
> (XML->TeX->dvi->PostScript->PDF instead of just XML->TeX->PDF)
> there is no difference in output quality or layout, ist just 
> that the conversion step to postscript will remove all 
> cross-referenc links from the document :(

Cross references are maintained in DVI and the PostScript version build
from the XML source. If there is a urgent need for them, I can build it
and commit to the phpweb repository.

-Egon

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