Re^3: producing fancy text

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I looked into the archives for pdf creation and stopped searching in January this year:

Perl to generate PDF

From a certain BernieC

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Re^4: producing fancy text by BernieC (Pilgrim) on Aug 24, 2020 at 02:31 UTC
True -- back then I was thinking of actually generating a PDF file directly and looking for a Perl package that might do the job. Then I learned that PDF files are basically glorified Postscript files and Postscript is basically a programming language that happens to have a lot of text and graphics handling capabilities. I was frightened off. A while later I asked about doing graphics and y'all pointed me at SVG, which was/is a delight and does the job I wanted perfectly. I was wondering if there was a similar package for "document-like" generation. ASciidoc looks like it is pretty much what I needed.	[reply]
Re^5: producing fancy text by LanX (Saint) on Aug 24, 2020 at 14:21 UTC
> AsciiDoc looks like it is pretty much what I needed. Looks a lot like MarkDown or ORG-mode and print formats like PS or PDF are actually created via LaTeX. Please note that all these concepts of abstracting away easy LaTeX syntax won't liberate you from installing TeX configuring special LaTeX features when needed embedding more complex LaTeX (like formulas) when needed Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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