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Monday, July 3, 2006 ★ 11:52 ★ Categories Programming, Misc
However, I think this is a perfectly normal workflow if you need to create an overview of several documents that follow the same format:
- create a single XML document from multiple HTML source files;
- write a hacky XSLT stylesheet to transform the XML document into a LaTeX snippet;
- include the resulting snipper in another hand-crafted LaTeX document;
- write a Makefile to do the XSL transformation;
- automate the document compilation using the same Makefile;
- send the resulting PDF file to a printer.
Why bother doing boring copy/paste/formatting jobs over and over again if you can automate using a little bit of creative hacker imagination?
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