On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:51:29 +0900, Andreas Semt <as / computer-leipzig.de> wrote:
> I am relative new to Ruby, so i ask:
> What's the best way to develop a *pure* Ruby Textile-to-PDF::Writer
> converter? I use the Soks Wiki (http://rubyforge.org/projects/soks/ by
> Tom Counsell) for documentation purpose on work (on a W2K Pro Box). This
> wiki saves the page content in flat text files in the Textile Markup
> language, so i want a converter to generate PDF files from these Textile
> files.  Austin Ziegler has a RubyForge project
> (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/) for writing PDF files in Ruby.
> So all parts of my imaginary pure Ruby Textile-to-PDF::Writer converter
> are there, however i wonder how to use them?

I don't know, offhand, but if you want to definitely do this and
contribute it to PDF::Writer, I will happily work with you on that --
this has been part of a goal of PDF::Writer (the specification of a
better formatting language than the simple one that I support right
now).

My problem is mostly that I don't really know Textile, and I'm deep in
the middle of Text::Format, with a bit of review of a new port of
Text::Reform. After that, I *must* work on Diff::LCS and Ruwiki again,
but I also need to get a PDF::Writer release out the door that
captures a font fix that I made last week (so you definitely want the
CVS HEAD version of PDF::Writer).

By contributing something like this to PDF::Writer, I will also make
sure that as the API for PDF::Writer changes (and I promise that it
will), the converter is kept up to date.

-austin
-- 
Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca