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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by renzev@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Context: LaTeX is a typesetting system. When compiling a document, a lot of really in-depth debugging information is printed, which can be borderline incomprehensible to anyone but LaTeX experts. It can also be a visual hindrance when looking for important information like errors.

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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I’ve come to that conclusion, too. If only printing support were better, I wouldn’t write anything but HTML.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Have you tried weasyprint? It turns .html into .pdf. Then I use a script with pdfinfo with the -dests option to get the page numbers of the chapters, mixes it with chapter titles from the .html file to create a ToC, which, in turn, gets included into the .html file again - just like TeX does it.

This is helpful in an environment where inputs are either HTML or EPUB files, and output is PDF for printing, HTML for the web site, and/or EPUB-formate.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I haven’t. Thanks for the tip. This might come in handy when we need to create automated documents again.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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