PlainDoc Document Production System
Nov 11, 2009
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Table of Contents (monolithic)
1 Introduction to PlainDoc
1.1 Tool chains
1.2 Data flow
2 Invocation
3 Syntax
3.1 Section structure
3.2 Document preamble
3.3 Paragraphs and text emphasis
3.3.1 Verbatim text
3.3.2 Block quotes
3.3.3 Footnotes
3.4 Bulleted and numbered lists
3.5 Tables
3.6 Images
3.6.1 Double images
3.6.2 gnuplot diagrams
3.6.3 GraphViz or dot graphs
3.6.4 Layers in Dia diagrams
3.7 Bibliographies
3.8 Referencing Sections, Tables and Figures
3.9 Creating Index
3.10 Including other files into document
3.11 URLs, email addresses, paths, and function names
3.12 Other special formatting
3.12.1 Passing Comments to Backend
3.13 Special support for grammars
3.14 Outputting verbatim blocks as files
3.15 DocBook only
3.16 HTML only
3.16.1 Multipage HTML
3.16.2 HTML Info Boxes
3.17 TeX only
3.18 Summary of Special Characters and Their Meaning
4 Producing Slides (presentations, overheads, transparencies, "powerpoints")
5 Installing the tool chains
5.1 Preliminaries
5.1.1 zlib-1.2.1
5.2 gnuplot-4.0.0
5.3 dia-0.94patch
5.4 teTeX or other LaTeX
5.4.1 Additional LaTeX packages
5.4.2 Installing Myriad as main document font, pmy.zip + MyriadPro route
5.4.3 Installing New Centry School Book via fouriernc package
5.4.4 Finnish hyphenation
5.5 emacs pd-mode
5.6 Graphviz-2.0
5.7 GhostScript (gs-8.53)
6 FAQ
6.1 Tips for Cramming a Lot of Legalese in Small Space
6.2 PlainDoc vs. other formats
6.3 LaTeX tips
6.4 Some common LaTeX errors
6.5 Booklet printing
6.6 Revision Control and Changebars
6.7 Communities and Links
6.8 Known bugs
6.9 Reporting bugs
7 Legal, Copyright, GPLv2 License