[Geany] the fine manual

[John Gabriele]

On 8/3/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:24:46 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 8/2/07, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > On 08/01/2007 05:13:27 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Did it take long to convert? Seems like a lot of work.
> >
> > Yeah, took a good part of a day. A lot of copying/pasting,
> > reformatting, proofing, and using the Shift-Alt-P Ctrl-1 key combo
>
> Didn't you started on the generated geany.txt? I guess this would had
> been much easier than converting from geany.docbook?

No. I a rare short circuit that occurred somewhere between my keyboard
and chair, I managed to completely overlook the existence of the
generated geany.txt file. I created the reST geany.txt straight from
the html output as displayed in my browser. This wasn't as bad as it
sounds though: I started with the table of contents, filled in the
section/subsection/subsubsection underline-style markup, and then had
a nice skeleton to fill in piece-by-piece as time allowed throughout
the day.

Actually, using the generated geany.txt may not even have been any
easier, since there's a lot of funny characters I'd have had to
replace, and formatting would've needed tweaking just as with the
other method. Anyhow, water under the bridge.

Converting directly from geany.docbook would've been the hardest. I've
tried it before (using lots of regexes in my editor), and it gets old
fast. :)

> > > Also can it generate PDFs?
> >
> > I think, currently, you need to get to pdf via LaTeX::
> >
> >     $ rst2latex geany.txt geany.tex
> >     $ pdflatex geany.tex
>
> "jw -b pdf geany.docbook" (the way we create the pdf files at the
> moment) does nearly the same. Generated PDFs from docbook source files
> are always intermediately converted into LaTeX. So, no big difference.

I asked about this on the relevant ML, and there's currently a
``rst2odt`` tool being worked on. It's alpha at the moment. Haven't
tried it out yet.

---John