[TYPO3] Documentation by TYPO3 with pdf-renderer

[ries van Twisk]

To give you all a other option there is something called latex,
it takes a our or 2 to get used to... But then you can render in any  
format perfectly.
LaTeX was created for documentation creation for academic uses, book  
creations
where you can concentrate on writing rather then markup which is why  
most people
spend half of the time in there documents just to make it look good..


However I do feel that OO is better suited and easy to use for  
everybody,
except for the Letter/a4 issue... but handy made a good suggestion to  
solve that, but needs
testing I assume.

I do feel that TYPO3 is not a good solution for serious documentation  
generation like Daniel suggested.
making good looking PDF files out of any webside, TYPO3 or not is  
hard, but not impossible because
of the way TYPO3 stored information. But a simple html2pdf tool will  
not do the trick. You then need to dive
into XSLT already to make it work reliable...

just my two cents...

Ries


On Mar 17, 2008, at 6:44 PM, virgil huston wrote:

> One question. Is there a way to have pages not A4. A4 really messes  
> up US
> printers. I have seen cases where printers are "down" for days. Is  
> there a
> way to make a choice between A4 and the US letter size in these cases.
>
> Virgil
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Daniel Bruessler  
> <danielb at typo3.org> wrote:
>
>> Hallo Andreas,
>>
>> yes, you're right TYPO3 would be the best choice.
>>
>> Is there a pdf-renderer extension in TER that does automatic
>> page-breaks? We really need a tool that does NOT have fixed pages.
>>
>> The copy-and-paste of the RTE is really good - it allows to add  
>> pictures
>> without uploading.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Daniel
>>
>>> Best of all : We already HAVE THIS TOOL!!!
>>>
>>> USE TYPO3
>>> it provides workspaces
>>> it provides versioning
>>> it provides multiple language
>>> it provides one of the best user managements
>>> it can read/import OO/Word/PDF
>>> it has a realtext Editor with lots of features
>>> It provides a much better way then google docs or another tool to  
>>> insert
>>> CODE examples
>>> can create PDF
>>> it can be printed as a complete BOOK (EXT:pipeline)
>>> an online Version and a printed Version could be combined in One  
>>> Tree.
>>> Parts of "Translations" could be reused for several Levels
>>> Andi
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