SiSU - PDF,
Ralph Amissah

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SiSU PDF

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1. SiSU pdf

1. SiSU pdf

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1.1 Name

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SiSU - Structured information, Serialized Units - a document publishing system.

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1.2 Description

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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).

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SiSU generates LaTeX which is converted by LaTeX tools to pdf.

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1.3 Synopsis

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sisu -pv [filename/wildcard]

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1.4 Commands

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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.

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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).

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1.5 Setting Paper Size

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The paper-size may be set to any of the following sizes: 'A4', U.S. 'letter' and 'legal' and book sizes: 'A5' and 'B5'

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1. The preset default if not otherwise given in the configuration file or elsewhere is A4.

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2. The default paper size may be set in the configuration file sisurc.yml. See sisu_configuration:

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  #% papersize, (LaTeX/pdf) current values A4, US_letter, book_b5, book_a5, US_legal

  default:
    papersize:    'A4'

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3. Paper size may be set in a document header:

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  @papersize: (A4|US_letter|book_B5|book_A5|US_legal)

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4. or provided with additional command line parameter, e.g.

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sisu -pv --papersize-a4 [filename/wildcard]

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Output generated by SiSU 0.59.0 2007-09-23 (2007w38/0)
SiSU Copyright ^© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2007. All Rights Reserved.
SiSU is software for document structuring, publishing and search,
www.jus.uio.no/sisu and www.sisudoc.org
w3 since October 3 1993 ralph@amissah.com

SiSU using:
Standard SiSU markup syntax,
Standard SiSU meta-markup syntax, and the
Standard SiSU object citation numbering and system, (object/text positioning system)
Copyright ^© Ralph Amissah 1997, current 2007. All Rights Reserved.

SiSU is released under GPLv3 or later, <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

SiSU, developed using Ruby on Debian/Gnu/Linux software infrastructure, with the usual GPL (or OSS) suspects.
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