[M3devel] Different forms of the language definition

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, 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?
>
> I personally don't find an on-line form very usable, and printing multiple
> html pages is both tedious to do and rather bad-looking to use.  Even a
> paper print of the one-page html form doesn't look great.  My favorite is
> a .ps or .pdf.  But the .ps I had and checked in appears to be been
> converted from a one-page html form and looks like a print from a web
> browser.  I can easily produce a nice .ps from the .tex with Latex.

The PostScript version I downloaded from somewhere years ago looked like
generated with TeX (at least not from HTML). I think this is the way to
go.