How is the PDF for the guide generated?

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Hi, I would like to generate a PDF from the german translation of the guide - how is the original pdf generated?

I found some markdown transform tools but none of these will collect the markdown textfiles in the correct order and put them all together in a big file to prepare the pdf output - how do you do this? I also found the python documentation tool called "sphinx", but it uses restructured text, not markdown. Did you write your own scripts to do it?

Thanks!

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The PDF is generated using tools under /build

The process is:

  1. Markdown -> LaTex: using /build/commands/GuideLatexCommand

  2. LaTex -> PDF: pdflatex

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ah, ok, I found it in yii-trunk - I was searching in the yiidoc svn for any tool that does it - ok, thanks, I will take a look at it.

anyway, what do you think about http://sphinx.pocoo.org ?

Have a nice weekend!