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

[Charlie Lowe]

I should clarify. The index page in the handbook on drupal.org would 
point to the specific page. It's the pdf where it would end up posting 
to the title page of the section it refers to.

Charlie Lowe wrote:
> 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 :)
>>
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