[lxml-dev] (patch) Generating PDF documentation

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Apr 18 21:44:45 CEST 2008


Hi,

Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> As this is my first post to this list, let me start from great thanks
> for this excellent library.

:)


> I created quick&dirty patch which adds "make pdf" target to the lxml
> Makefile, generating latex files and then pdflatex-ing them to obtain
> the PDF book.

I fixed up the patch a little and committed it to the trunk. If there are no
objection, I'll just add the generated PDF to the source release, that's not
even 1MB more.


> The result is surely unpolished (some LaTeX presentation
> tuning could make sense, also the section structure should be imported
> from common file instead of being copied), but nevertheless may be
> useful.

It definitely is. I already thought about that a couple of times, but didn't
really take a shot on it. So, thanks a lot for the contribution. Polish will
come over time. I take more patches here. :)

Stefan



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