• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton nospam.xyz> Jul 31 2006
• Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> Jul 31 2006
• Markus Dangl <danglm in.tum.de> Aug 06 2006
• "Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> Aug 06 2006
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton nospam.xyz> Aug 07 2006

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton nospam.xyz> writes:

Is it possible to generate latex files with dmd and macro definitions?
The main problem I see, is that dmd escapes characters for html and this
behavior cannot be customized.
Has someone ever done that?

Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

Frank Benoit wrote:
 Is it possible to generate latex files with dmd and macro definitions?
 The main problem I see, is that dmd escapes characters for html and this
 behavior cannot be customized.
 Has someone ever done that?


I'd love to support Latex with Ddoc. If you can give it a try with the 
macros to see how close we can come, I can see about closing the gap.

Markus Dangl <danglm in.tum.de> writes:

Walter Bright schrieb:
 Frank Benoit wrote:
 Is it possible to generate latex files with dmd and macro definitions?
 The main problem I see, is that dmd escapes characters for html and this
 behavior cannot be customized.
 Has someone ever done that?


 I'd love to support Latex with Ddoc. If you can give it a try with the 
 macros to see how close we can come, I can see about closing the gap.


If you could generate proper XML with Ddoc, you could - perhaps - write 
an XSLT program yielding latex output...
One of the problems here is that Ddoc allows the use of html tags in 
documentation comments - there were some more, minor problems which may 
not even exist anymore. It's been some time since i tried to write an 
XML generator.

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

For that, you'd probably end up requiring the use of XHTML in comments. 
  That, or CDATA'ing it.

Last time I tried, there were some issues with things just not being 
semantic (e.g. B is not semantic, and moreso many others are not) and so 
there's no way to fit it properly into a semantic xml structure that's 
easy to parse.

But I know things changed a bit since I last had time to mess with it.

-[Unknown]


 Walter Bright schrieb:
 Frank Benoit wrote:
 Is it possible to generate latex files with dmd and macro definitions?
 The main problem I see, is that dmd escapes characters for html and this
 behavior cannot be customized.
 Has someone ever done that?


 I'd love to support Latex with Ddoc. If you can give it a try with the 
 macros to see how close we can come, I can see about closing the gap.


 If you could generate proper XML with Ddoc, you could - perhaps - write 
 an XSLT program yielding latex output...
 One of the problems here is that Ddoc allows the use of html tags in 
 documentation comments - there were some more, minor problems which may 
 not even exist anymore. It's been some time since i tried to write an 
 XML generator.

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton nospam.xyz> writes:

 If you could generate proper XML with Ddoc, you could - perhaps - write
 an XSLT program yielding latex output...
 One of the problems here is that Ddoc allows the use of html tags in
 documentation comments - there were some more, minor problems which may
 not even exist anymore. It's been some time since i tried to write an
 XML generator.


Yes I think you are right, that would be the best approach.