Re: [lojban] Re: The CLL project, technical directions

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 05:58:41PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:31:08PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:35:39PM -0700, TR NS wrote:
> > > 
> > > It is. But recently I found a solution I like even better,
> > > mainly because it is a more direct solution. It's called
> > > WeasyPrint and it is an HTML to PDF converter. Because it is
> > > HTML based, it is much easier to manipulate custom markup. This
> > > can be doen via coded transforms if need be, but much of it can
> > > be done via CSS which is really nice. And since Markdown
> > > passes-thru custom markup, it can be used as the source markup. 
> > > 
> > > However it remains to be seen to what degree the printed output
> > > will be suitable. My preliminary tests looked good, but as
> > > always the devil is in the details.
> > > 
> > > http://weasyprint.org/
> > 
> > I would *love* if such a thing worked, but the big thing I'm not
> > seeing in the examples is page-numbered cross-references, i.e.
> > "the armadillo (see page 22) is a blue fish".
> > 
> > Can you test to see if you can generate such things, and if so
> > show me a pdf example?
> 
> So, yeah, no.  See https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/218
> 
> The way to do this is http://www.princexml.com/purchase/ , which I
> had previously rejected because ridiculously expensive.
> 
> Having said that, though, the LLG certainly *can* afford the $500
> for a single user license, so that's certainly an option.  Feel free
> to play with the free version and see what's what.

Hmm...  So far it looks like Prince may actually be quite workable
for us.  Links I'm using to help with the CSS:

 http://alistapart.com/article/building-books-with-css3

 http://alistapart.com/article/boom 

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