[Setools] Swiki to PDF and HTML

[goran at krampe.se]

Hi!

"Ron Teitelbaum" <Ron at USMedRec.com> wrote:
> > From: goran at krampe.se
> > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:20 AM
> > 
> > One thing I was wondering - does anyone know of any good nice way of
> > producing documentation so that the end result is PDF, HTML and/or Swiki
> > style?
> > 
> > Ideally I would like to write in a Swiki style markup - then be able to
> > use that inside Gjallar for the integrated help - but also somehow
> > generate good looking an external static HTML and PDF document. Or
> > something like that. Ideas welcome.
> > 
> > regards, Göran
> 
> Göran,
> 
> I would think you could accomplish this in Swiki.  Anything that can print
> can become a PDF.  To create a pdf for free see www.pdf995.com or you could
> buy the pdf writer.  The writer from adobe is very useful since it enables
> you do a bunch more, like ocr from a scanned document, editing pdf.s ...

Yeah, but I would like to get something that looks more professional "in
print".
 
One idea is to use a Swiki style markup as original (I already have my
own parser for it which is used inside Gjallar) - then create some kind
of simple cross compiler into Lout src or LaTeX src or similar.

Or perhaps into XSL-FO and then use something like Apache FOP.

regards, Göran