> Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > > Thought this might be of interest to some of the list, despite involving > XML! > > https://github.com/thomaspark/pubcss/#readme > > PubCSS is a library of CSS stylesheets and HTML templates for formatting > academic publications for print and the web. > > ... > > Using Prince, which turns HTML and CSS into PDF, it produces > https://github.com/thomaspark/pubcss/blob/master/formats/acm-sig/templates/acm-sig-sample-latex.pdf?raw=true > with the option of formatting in a similar style for a web presentation > of the paper, i.e. > http://thomaspark.me/project/pubcss/demo/acm-sig-sample-web.html > The author goes on to mention how the web one can be tarted up and made > more interactive, currently with Javascript, but with CSS as better > browser support arrives.
Prince is commercial software, with a rather (yes, I’m going there) princely price attached. :-P Free for non-commercial use, although an academic server version is in the $2000 range. Of course, one could write an XSLT stylesheet to translate the template-d HTML to groff and generate a PDF. I’m doing exactly that for our publishing co-op, extracting HTML from eBooks that use our house CSS and running it through *roff to produce PDF. (I’m using neatroff at the moment, as it can do paragraph-level formatting.) Currently, manual intervention is a matter of converting images where needed and fiddling with line spacing to even up bottom margins. I wonder if I could divert an entire page and do that automatically, it could save a bunch of time… — Larry
