As the author of MultiMarkdown, and having generated countless PDF's from plain text and HTML, and not having the faintest clue what HTMLDOC is, I can guarantee you that htmldoc _is not_ a requirement for PDF generation when using Multimarkdown.
The PDF commands in TextMate that are associated with MMD do not require htmldoc.
I don't know what htmldoc is. Looking at the website, and looking at the PDF version of their manual, it looks like the output it generates is of a different quality level and approach than the approach used by MMD.
MMD converts HTML into LaTeX, and then uses the LaTeX to generate a PDF. It's somewhat complicated, and requires that latex be installed on your computer, but the quality of the output is top-notch (and that's boasting on LaTeX, not MMD - I can't take credit in the least for the quality that LaTeX generates)
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On 8/12/09 5:09 PM, David Watson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Christopher Brewster <cbrewster@gmail.com mailto:cbrewster@gmail.com> wrote:
But as Fletcher pointed out, HTMLDOC is not needed for multimarkdown or markdown ..... Christopher
Christopher,
You do realize that I referred to multimarkdown because that's where PDF generation lives in the textmate menus? I was just trying to set context.
htmldoc _is_ a requirement for PDF generation.
The macports version of htmldoc works so I would suggest it be documented somewhere. I didn't seem to find anything when I did google searches around these terms and clearly there's a whole host of issues with these broken htmldoc builds.
-david
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