Thread: LaTeX Source Packages & Autogeneration
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Old 09-11-2009, 03:28 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
Interesting. Actually, I wish I had known about that Prince XML software sooner. That's apparently what is being used for the "Custom PDF" option on feedbooks, which I've just now tried, and am getting pretty good results.

My main complaint is that the one I tried did not have "smart quotes", but straight ones, but I take it that's a problem with the Gutenberg source.

Here we have a working model of almost precisely what we're after, so it's worth poking into a bit... too bad Prince XML isn't open source.

Funny thing is that I could swear the chapter titles are generated with LaTeX's fncychap package... maybe someone has ported it...
I prefer feedbooks to any other similar page out there... but find their stuff decidedly lower quality than what I can generate via LaTeX. Though I am yet to consider the matter with cold rationality... so I cannot say how much is in my head, and how much is based on undeniable differences.

And yeah, the lack of smart quotes is definitely a task for preprocessing.

I guess pacify (and/or other scripts/programs like it) might become a #0 in the thread-starting triumvirate?

- Ahi
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