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Re: [d20-xml] [OT] SRD in LaTeX?



--- Fred Drake <fdrake@...> wrote:

> This is a little off-topic, but this seems as reasonable a place to
> ask as I'm aware of.
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> Does anyone know of a version of the SRD in LaTeX format, instead of
> the RTF from the Wizard's site? I'd be interested in finding such a
> beast.

I'd like the same thing myself. I've downloaded the latest RTF specs
and was thinking of taking a weekend or two to hammer out a RTF to TeX
converter. (I prefer plain TeX with my own macro packages over LaTex,
but I could do either.)

Something aimed strictly at the SRD might not take as long as something
more generic, but it depends a good bit on how consistent the
formatting is from file to file. I've not looked at all the SRD docs in
raw format to really figure it out.

The SRD has been converted to docbook, and I'm pretty sure you could
easily convert the docbook to TeX. I've been thinking of using the
docbook to HTML conversion to have something more portable than RTF.

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Mon May 1, 2006 2:20 pm

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This is a little off-topic, but this seems as reasonable a place to ask as I'm aware of. Does anyone know of a version of the SRD in LaTeX format, instead of ...
Fred Drake
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Apr 30, 2006
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... As far as I know, there is no LaTeX-version, but IIRC one could use XeTeX for transforming XML into LaTeX. But I'm not sure which XML formats XeTeX works...
Johannes Luber
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Apr 30, 2006
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... I'd like the same thing myself. I've downloaded the latest RTF specs and was thinking of taking a weekend or two to hammer out a RTF to TeX converter. (I...
Jason
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May 1, 2006
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... I've got an RTF parser (in Python, of course!), but can't share that code since it belongs to my employer. I'd be much more interested in highly semantic...
Fred Drake
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May 1, 2006
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... RTF doesn't look all that difficult to parse, but I'd need to play with a bit to make any sort of judgment on that. I've also found some free RTF parser...
Jason
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... It's not all that bad, but not interesting enough by itself to write a parser for if you already have one. ... Table-driven replacements would be trivial,...
Fred Drake
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May 1, 2006
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... I took a run at this a year or two ago. My first step was to go through the entire RSRD in Word, applying styles consistently (and adding styles to mark...
Keith Davies
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May 1, 2006
11:29 pm

... This is very much something I'd like to avoid doing in a word processor of any sort. I can get by doing very basic in MS Word and OpenOffice (including...
Fred Drake
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May 2, 2006
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... I agree entirely. This step took a number of hours -- I could have done it in a single day if I'd had everything set up ahead of time. I wasn't trying to...
Keith Davies
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May 2, 2006
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... [Snipped for brevity.] ... I was hoping for some consistency in the RTF of the SRD so I could just look at it and not what stylistic changes signal...
Jason
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May 2, 2006
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... XSLT can easily output to any text based file format. I have generated RTF from XML using XSLT before, you just need to be careful about whitespace and...
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