Title: SiSU - PDF
Creator: Ralph Amissah
Rights: Copyright (C) Ralph Amissah 2007, part of SiSU documentation, License GPL 3
Type: information
Subject: ebook, epublishing, electronic book, electronic publishing, electronic document, electronic citation, data structure, citation systems, search
Date created: 2002-08-28
Date issued: 2002-08-28
Date available: 2002-08-28
Date modified: 2007-09-16
Date: 2007-09-16
1 SiSU - PDF,
Ralph Amissah 2 SiSU PDF 3 1. SiSU pdf 4 1.1 Name 5 SiSU - Structured information, Serialized Units - a document publishing system. 6 1.2 Description 7 Information creating pdf output with sisu (and related to the sisu_pdf dependency package, which is a dummy package to install dependencies needed for SiSU to generate pdfs (primarily related to LaTeX), sisu_pdf being part of SiSU - man sisu). 8 SiSU generates LaTeX which is converted by LaTeX tools to pdf. 9 1.3 Synopsis 10 sisu -pv [filename/wildcard] 11 1.4 Commands 12 sisu -pv [filename/wildcard]
creates two pdf documents: vertical (portrait.pdf) and; horizontal (landscape.pdf). SiSU generates LaTeX output which is converted to pdf if the appropriate LaTeX dependencies are met on the system. 13 sisu -pv --papersize-a4 [filename/wildcard]
overrides the default papersize set to A4. Preset alternative sizes include: 'A4', U.S. 'letter' and 'legal' and book sizes 'A5' and 'B5' (system defaults to A4). 14 1.5 Setting Paper Size 15 The paper-size may be set to any of the following sizes: 'A4', U.S. 'letter' and 'legal' and book sizes: 'A5' and 'B5' 16 1. The preset default if not otherwise given in the configuration file or elsewhere is A4. 17 2. The default paper size may be set in the configuration file sisurc.yml. See sisu_configuration: 18      #% papersize, (LaTeX/pdf) current values A4, US_letter, book_b5, book_a5, US_legal

     default:
       papersize:    'A4'     19 3. Paper size may be set in a document header: 20      @papersize: (A4|US_letter|book_B5|book_A5|US_legal)     21 4. or provided with additional command line parameter, e.g. 22 sisu -pv --papersize-a4 [filename/wildcard]