[Edu-sig] How best to publish?...Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:38:56 -0400

L. Humbert L. Humbert" <humbert@ls12sr.cs.uni-dortmund.de
Tue, 16 May 2000 11:10:21 +0200


Hi Jeffrey Elkner,

I read your Mail in the Python-Edu-sig-Maillist.
You may give=20
html2ps
a try.
It's written in Perl (8-;
but you can use it to produce Textbooks out of HTML-Pages

VERSION       This manpage describes html2ps version 1.0 beta1.

AVAILABILITY
       http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
       ftp://ftp.tdb.uu.se/pub/WWW/html2ps/

AUTHOR       Jan Karrman (jan@tdb.uu.se)

=09I hope, it helps

=09L. Humbert                                           =20

PS:=20
ZOPE made another <Python-based> attempt in converting structured
texts in diverse formats (PDF, I think)
I didn't look closer, but you may find it on
www.zope.org --

PPS: I am working with LyX (www.lyx.org) when I want to produce texts:
fine layout and presentation --> latex --> PS=20
and PDF (with pdflatex): =20
http://www.elec.uq.edu.au/~rae/LyX/=20

I took a closer look at
 http://www.ReportLab.com
http://www.ReportLab.com/demos/gallery.html

It pytonish (;-)