Re: Rant: Giving up on XML

["D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 7:48 pm, iFaqeer (SIA) wrote:
> am doing right now is exactly that: a quick-and-dirty Doxygen-to-PDF

> What you get is crude and has no prayer of looking like
> professional-quality doc with TOCs and Indices, etc. But for a
> quick-and-dirty to send into the field for those customers that MUST
> have PDF, it's a ... did I say "quick" often enough?... quick fix.

Have you tried HTMLDoc?  I think there's a version for Windows.  I've used 
this on Linux to do a quick and dirty web-to-PDF conversion that yielded a 
fairly decent fake book format.  You get a TOC, but no index.  It works best 
if the HTML pages are formatted in a way that makes it easy for the program 
to pull out the TOC, but I bet Doxygen output would fit that bill.

Let's try it...

Well, maybe not.  The TOC it came up with for Rosegarden was pretty lame:

1 Rosegarden global design 
1.1 1.4.0
1.2 Base 
1.2.1 Music Structures
1.3 GUI
1.4 Sequencer

You might fare better with a better organized Doxyfile though.
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