From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2008, #02; Sun, 14) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:17:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <7v7i632mg9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Miklos Vajna To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 14 12:18:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LBozd-00048V-GT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:18:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752972AbYLNLRU (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:17:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753005AbYLNLRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:17:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f17.google.com ([209.85.219.17]:35734 "EHLO mail-ew0-f17.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752918AbYLNLRT (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:17:19 -0500 Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so2516365ewy.13 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:17:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=fWdb8qx0UzxlyAY42JAVxhWe9IUXDAhlkXxtiiK4JOs=; b=sW/EGH9bzUptOJQVi2dioyckmlx0kOHQqNdS7PhbTVMiGHMHh/g1t6wCtT+exGk9J7 0R4LKD0YfN3F3pDunePNtiZ+kMHFIrOtOzNwmKrl2iE+1eqxxINXZiyWrta0JpQB9oTw Gf0IF3zXuoJ9E68As+Gve9dDT0r72OjLyfj/M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=qumNHwQ06Mssv5PYLu+mF69VhfYlJtbQUNCYK5v/7JsqiJdajCWw/u20ZM297ZNRU4 estCXhDbpZ8Nd1HmQdAeNJs+bje42azw9LsboN4SEv39qqPILCAUAXBhdBsUkKDQWL1D 6R8smhx86yIZJJlgQ3na3kk6BhZFrImg3/JX8= Received: by 10.210.81.3 with SMTP id e3mr6475633ebb.21.1229253437184; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abxb72.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.251.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k9sm48861nfh.57.2008.12.14.03.17.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id mBEBGQVk015890; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:16:37 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id mBEBG3JA015875; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:16:03 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > * mv/um-pdf (Wed Dec 10 23:44:50 2008 +0100) 1 commit > > - Add support for a pdf version of the user manual > > > > I do not have a new enough combination of dblatex and asciidoc myself > > but this would help interested people. > > I haven't had a look at the patches, but isn't "pdflatex" supposed to be > the common way to get .pdf files from LaTeX sources? The problem is that AsciiDoc, from what I understand, by itself generates only XML-ish formats, namely HTML, XHTML and DocBook, and the rest of formats are generated in postprocessing step by extra tools from DocBook format: * manpages require xmlto * info requires docbook2X and makeinfo * PDF requires dblatex (db = DocBook), or FOP and xmlto So the answer is that AsciiDoc does not generate LaTeX, so pdflatex would be not enough. By the way, from the AsciiDoc page: NOTE: Owning to to other commitments, Benjamin is unable to maintain this backend. I don't have the expertise or time to take this on consequently the LaTeX backend has not been tested or updated since AsciiDoc version 8.2.7 and is currently unsupported. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git