[open-data-manual] [okfn-discuss] Open Data Manual & some fun

[Thomas Kandler]

That's terrific to know. I think this should be a serious option: PDF 
Output on the website. I think this would considerably improve the 
usability in terms of printing and relevance of the manual.


Cheers
Thomas


On 06.07.2011 13:43, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> On 4 July 2011 08:44, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz 
> <mailto:paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     The technology we've chosen is a well used Sphinx documentation
>     tool. When Rufus & I were discussing which tools to use, we
>     thought it would be best to make sure that we use a mature tool
>     that produced great web output. Sphinx is used by other OKF
>     projects, because of its wide adoption by the Python community.
>
>
> Sphinx can actually also produce decent PDF output via Latex. E.g. For 
> IPython, we publish documentation as both HTML and PDF: 
> http://ipython.org/documentation.html . This isn't a corner case - 
> Python, Sphinx and Numpy all publish PDF versions of their (Sphinx 
> based) docs. It's just a separate build option.
>
> Best wishes,
> Thomas

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