[M3devel] Different forms of the language definition

[Olaf Wagner]

On Thu, August 9, 2007 01:10, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> I checked in a .tex, a one-page .html, and a .ps version of the
> Modula-3 language definition, with the intent to get them consistent
> with each other and the multi-page html version.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about the best way to derive the different
> forms from a single source, or how it was originally done?

It's been some years since I've done it, but you can use LaTeX as
source and produce high-quality PS and PDF output (dvips, dvipdf) as
well as HTML (there were several tools at the time).

Alternatively you could use DocBook/SGML tools (as for example the
FreeBSD project does (at least, did some years ago ;-)).

Personally I'd think LaTeX is fine and will be easier.

Olaf
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