[GRLUG] RFCs, LaTeX and metadata.

[Ben Rousch]

Talk to John Harig at the Linux social. He s a Latex guru.
On Jul 30, 2011 10:38 AM, "John-Thomas Richards" <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:18:15AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:13 AM, John-Thomas Richards
>> <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> >> If you check out http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html , you can get
>> >> a listing of all current, non-obsoleted RFCs.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to get all of these into a single, well-organized ePub, so I
>> >> can throw it on the Nook and read them in a reflowable format. I
>> >> *think* LaTeX is probably the best starting place. However, I (a)
>> >> don't know LaTeX well at all, and (b), I'd like to work on it with
>> >> people who know it well enough to help me avoid making stupid
>> >> mistakes.
>> >>
>> >> (Little is more annoying than spending a weeks' worth of free time on
>> >> something, only to be told at the end, "why didn't you do it this
>> >> way?" ... Actually, that's how my last vacation was spent.)
>> >>
>> >> The source documents are all preformatted plaintext. To my knowledge,
>> >> that's generally their original format, as well. Conversion to a
>> >> reflowable format will require a lot of manual work.
>> >
>> > I know a little bit of LaTeX.  What is a "reflowable format"?
>> > Adjustable width?  (Why, on a Nook?)
>>
>> Big advantage to a reflowable format is that I can show it on the
>> nook, show it on my computer, use it in my browser, etc, as I'm
>> chugging along through.I was able to get through my O'Reilly epubs
>> within a couple weeks, that way.
>
> Ah. That makes sense. LaTeX wouldn't have a problem churning through
> the preformatted text
> since
> it
> doesn't recognize
> line
> breaks
> the way other programs do. For example, if this were a LaTeX document
> this would be one paragraph with properly formatted margins (determined,
> of course, by LaTeX).
>
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