Print versions of the PHP-Nuke HOWTO
Date:
Saturday, August 02 @ 23:29:56 CEST
Topic:
PHP-Nuke
Hello Nukers,
a lot of you ask me about a print version of the
PHP-Nuke HOWTO
(also known as "the PHP-Nuke book" ;-) ).
Well, I am pleased to tell you that there are a lot of them to choose from. Just go to the
Formats section
and choose the right one for you.
Especially the
PDF version of "PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming"
was designed to offer you as many features of a modern, high quality PDF document as possible.
Some of the document features are:
Table of Contents (ToC) in the Bookmarks
Thumbnails
Partially embedded Computer Modern Fonts in T1 quality
Cross-references and HTML links as hyperlinks
All images included
Professional formatting, with the power of TeX and LaTeX
The same applies to the
Postscript version
too.
There is even a
RTF version
there, for those of you who use Word. You will need the images, if you read RTF offline, though, so I have compiled a tar archive containing the RTF text and the images
here
.
Finally, there is always a
plain text version of the PHP-Nuke book
for the ASCII purists!
If you compare the print and HTML versions with each other, you will notice that they all follow the same structure and the same formatting concepts consistently across formats. That's because they all are descendants of the same "parent document", the "master" so to say: the
SGML source
, which in turn was derived from the
LyX source
. LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance.
LyX
lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under Windows/Cygwin.
The document is written in LyX, then exported to SGML. With the use of some scripts of mine, the SGML is corrected and "rendered" (as we say) to all the other formats using a heavy software machinery, consisting of packages like Openjade, TeX, LaTeX, pdfjadetex and some highly customized DSSSL stylesheets.
A detailed description of this document generation process will soon be published under the GPL on
my homepage
. Stay tuned!
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