[drupal-docs] generating Drupal Handbook pdf's manually

[Charlie Lowe]

Somewhat crazy idea: What if when we get to Drupal 4.6 we could use the 
folksonomy module to tag individual doc pages? Handbook 
maintainers/creators could assign the tags. Then use the folksonomy tags 
to produce an index section of tags used in the book? Granted, it 
wouldn't point to the exact page, but rather that subsection, but it's 
an interesting application of soon to be existing Drupal technology to 
solve the problem. And a nice way to provide an onsite index to the 
book, too.

Djun Kim wrote:
> 
>    It is not possible to do this using existing tools and methods.
> The generated Postscript is DSC compliant, so in principle, some
> kind of automatic indexing could be attempted from the Postscript
> file.  However, experience and the wisdom of my elders cautions me
> against much faith in automatic indexing.  Careful automatic
> indexing of clean source files should be able to generate about 70%
> of index entries, in my experience.  The remaining 30% requires
> human attention, and of course takes much longer than 30% of
> the time required for indexing :)
>