Re: [Xen-devel] STAO spec in xen.git

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:26:57AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: STAO spec in xen.git"):
> > In that case, I think we should still commit it as ODT, but convert it
> > automatically to PDF when we publish it (we do something similar with
> > the markdown docs, converting them from markdown to html).
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> The fact that git diff won't show updates well is not ideal, but IMO
> it is imperative to get the document 1. it into our own version
> control and 2. in a format we can edit 3. using FLOSS tools.
> 
> Please can we commit the source of the document to xen.git as a first
> step.  At that point the xen.git copy will become the master copy.
> 
> We can then think about PDF export.  If the conversion has to be done
> ad hoc manually at first then that is not a blocker for committing the
> file.

unoconv[0][1] seems like a good option to do cli conversions from odt to pdf.
Adding a configure test plus a matching make rune doesn't seem very hard.

Roger.

[0] https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv
[1] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unoconv

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