PlainDoc (pd2tex) Home

The PlainDoc document production system allows you to write documents as normal text files. pd2tex tool converts the plain text files to

TeX which then gets converted to pdf (you need pdflatex tool installed)
DocBook (dbx) which can be fed to various tool chains (not supplied) to generate pdf and html
flat HTML (entire document in one HTML file)
multipage HTML (each section as its own HTML file)

The PlainDoc system is further described in sampo-plaindoc.html (monolithic page). Also multipage browsing is available. Our page at freshmeat.net/projects/plaindoc

Version

Currently pd2tex is not versioned, other than by having a CVS Id tag in the comment, which is right now 1.55 2009-11-10 for pd2tex, 1.33 2007-10-14 for xsd2sg.pl, and 1.6 2009-02-18 for pdblog.pl.

Downloads

pd2tex: The main tool
xsd2sg.pl: Schema grammar to/from XSD conversion tool. This is the work horse behind the zxid.org project.
pdblog.pl: A plain text and CVS based blogging system
sampo-plaindoc.pd: Documentation source in Plaindoc format (good and comprehensive example of what PlainDoc source looks like)
sampo-plaindoc.pdf: PDF documentation generated from above source

Related Projects

zxid.org: Federated Identity and ID Web Services Toolkit that uses Schema Grammars and xsd2sg.pl (zxid-0.22 needs xsd2sg.pl 1.33)
EDDA Project that uses a variant of Plaindoc

License

The Plaindoc system is offered under GPL, see COPYING.plaindoc

Enjoy,
--Sampo