Re: Automatic PDF manuals from Texinfo strings?

[Moreno Marzolla]

Lukas Reichlin wrote:
> Dear Octave community
>
> I would like to generate a PDF manual for my control package.  Is it possible 
> to run a script upon package installation that extracts all texinfo strings 
> from functions listed in INDEX and that creates a PDF manual?  I'm looking for 
> something that works similar to the generate_html package that creates PDF 
> instead of HTML output.

Hello,

I faced the same problem some time ago with an Octave package I 
developed. What I did was to mimick what Octave itself does for 
generating its TexInfo manual; this basically involves a couple of 
scripts and a C++ program (taken almost verbatim from Octave). See here:

http://www.moreno.marzolla.name/software/qnetworks/qnetworks-0.8.8.tar.gz

I understand that a "cleaner" solution involving a single Octave script 
which does everything would be desirable, but at the moment that works 
for me. I generate the html and PDF documentation offline by issuing 
"make", and then I use "make dist" to pack everything into the 
distribution tarball which can be installed with "pkg install XXX".

Hope that helps,

Moreno.

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