[Gllug] Downright fun

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:15:50PM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Mar 04 2003, Rev wrote:
> > John reminded us that Linux is "downright fun".  So what are the fun
> > things you've discovered/built/got working under Linux recently?
> 
> I'm going to sound either a) an elitist wanker or b) a sad, sad human
> being here... I don't recon myself any of those though ;)
> 
>  i)   `package-framework' for building programs -- it is not very mature,
>       but it is _so_ much nicer to use than autoconf/automake/libtool.
>      
>       http://regexps.srparish.net/src/package-framework/

This is nice. I based <ad>make+</ad> on Tom Lord's original ideas for this.

>  iv)  re-discovered how good tex4ht (htlatex) is transforming latex
>       documents into html (latex2html is _shite_) and that links has a
>       -dump flag too, which does justice to tables etc.

No no no! 'xmlto' and DocBook/XML!

Rich.

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