hgbook on bitbucket; was: hgbook is broken?

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Romain Pelisse <belaran at gmail.com> wrote:


> IMO, I definitly understand the needs to move convert hgbook to DocBook,
> but it sounds to me less important than actually "feeding" the book (which
> is already big, but i'm pretty sure there still margin for improvements).


Doing the conversion is a prerequisite to further work on the book, because
recent versions of tex4ht are even more thoroughly broken than before, and I
have been unable to publish revisions for months due to tex4ht outputting
garbage.


> Also, as there is already a spanish version, and a french version is on the
> way, I wonder how costy would be this technical migration from LaTex to
> DocBook for those sideproject.
>

It's definitely going to be awkward, but unfortunately there's no way around
it. I have a script that partly automates the job, but it's an ugly hack
that requires a few hours of manual repair work afterwards. In retrospect,
LaTeX was a poor choice for the book: I wouldn't use it for anything I was
planning to publish in HTML again.
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