[PYTHON DOC-SIG] Python TIM processor...

[Jim Fulton]

Bill Janssen wrote:
> 
> I've started re-writing my TIM stuff in Python (see
> ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/2.0/20a8-manual-html/manual_17.html).
> So far I've got a Python script that takes TIM with arbitrary
> domain-specific macros, and produces text, info, Texinfo, Postscript, or
> HTML output.  Both diagrams and pictures are supported via encapsulated
> Postscript; URLs are supported as well.  For the text and info part, you
> need GNU makeinfo.  For the Postscript, you need TeX, GNU texindex, and
> dvips.  For the HTML, you need another script, a mildly expanded version
> of Lionel Cons' texinfo2html perl script; this script also uses a script
> called eps2gif, another perl script written by Gisle Aas, which in turn
> requires ghostscript with GIF output drivers.
> 
> Or, to put it another way:
> 
> TIM->Texinfo requires only Python
> TIM->Text requires Python & GNU makeinfo
> TIM->Info requires Python & GNU makeinfo
> TIM->Postscript requires Python, TeX, GNU texindex & dvips
> TIM->HTML requires Python, Ghostscript & Perl

Whew!

> 1)  Do these seem like reasonable resource constraints?

Yes.

> 2)  Is there some Python script for turning texinfo into HTML, so that I
> could drop the Perl dependency?

That would be nice.

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