textpattern.github.io Investigate automatic compilation of docs to offline format

R&D phase.

Aug 29 '17 09:08 petecooper

Tagging https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern.github.io/issues/114 for completeness.

Nov 20 '18 16:11 petecooper

Aside: the workflow they outline in that blog article is partially what smd_ebooks does when compiling Textpattern articles across Sections into a single ePub or .mobi file via creation of the various necessary furniture like .ncx and .opf files. It was a learning experience, I can tell ya!

Nov 20 '18 16:11 Bloke

Adobe Acrobat DC (which I have as part of Creative Cloud) can turn an entire site into a PDF. Just giving it a try now. Looks like it'll need some cleanup but in principle it works - will post a scrappy copy here when finished compiling.

Nov 20 '18 16:11 philwareham

@philwareham Oooh nice.

@petecooper If you're tempted to flex your scripting muscles using sed or awk then watch out for the caveats of doing a recursive find in a git repo. Basically, omit the .git directory and its hidden files or things could go bad very quickly!

Nov 20 '18 16:11 Bloke

Yeah, Acrobat was pretty crappy - back to the drawing board on this.

Nov 20 '18 17:11 philwareham

Thanks, dudes - appreciate your input on this.

Nov 20 '18 17:11 petecooper

NTS: https://forum.textpattern.io/viewtopic.php?id=49264

Dec 18 '18 14:12 petecooper

merging into https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern.github.io/issues/162 to reduce noise

Jul 11 '20 08:07 petecooper