generate pdf through texinfo

generate pdf through texinfo

[Luis Rivera]

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Hello!

Thinking about tinkering with PDF.hs (my first experience with Haskell), I 
wonder which is the best strategy to generate pdfs through texinfo as the 
intermediate format. The options, afaik, are the following:

# going through an intermediate texinfo file explicitly and then calling 
pdftex, like going through a pdfgroff or html5 files via pdfgroff or 
wkhtmltopdf.
# generating a pdf directly through pdftex, like the latex or context 
backends.
# use a lua script and forget about hs.
# use a shell/cmd script and pipe and also forget about hs.

The last one looks like the easiest, but requires knowing the shell in 
advance, as may not be as portable as the others.

Which one is recommended?

Thanks in advance,

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Re: generate pdf through texinfo

[John MacFarlane]

I think using a shell script or Makefile is most sensible in
this case.  Anyone who works with texinfo is probably going
to know to handle that.

+++ Luis Rivera [Jul 11 17 10:25 ]:
>   Hello!
>   Thinking about tinkering with PDF.hs (my first experience with
>   Haskell), I wonder which is the best strategy to generate pdfs through
>   texinfo as the intermediate format. The options, afaik, are the
>   following:
>   # going through an intermediate texinfo file explicitly and then
>   calling pdftex, like going through a pdfgroff or html5 files via
>   pdfgroff or wkhtmltopdf.
>   # generating a pdf directly through pdftex, like the latex or context
>   backends.
>   # use a lua script and forget about hs.
>   # use a shell/cmd script and pipe and also forget about hs.
>   The last one looks like the easiest, but requires knowing the shell in
>   advance, as may not be as portable as the others.
>   Which one is recommended?
>   Thanks in advance,
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