Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > * mv/um-pdf (Wed Dec 10 23:44:50 2008 +0100) 1 commit
> > - Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
> >
> > I do not have a new enough combination of dblatex and asciidoc myself
> > but this would help interested people.
>
> I haven't had a look at the patches, but isn't "pdflatex" supposed to be
> the common way to get .pdf files from LaTeX sources?
The problem is that AsciiDoc, from what I understand, by itself
generates only XML-ish formats, namely HTML, XHTML and DocBook, and
the rest of formats are generated in postprocessing step by extra
tools from DocBook format:
* manpages require xmlto
* info requires docbook2X and makeinfo
* PDF requires dblatex (db = DocBook), or FOP and xmlto
So the answer is that AsciiDoc does not generate LaTeX, so pdflatex
would be not enough.
By the way, from the AsciiDoc page:
NOTE: Owning to to other commitments, Benjamin is unable to maintain
this backend. I don't have the expertise or time to take this
on consequently the LaTeX backend has not been tested or
updated since AsciiDoc version 8.2.7 and is currently
unsupported.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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