Re: GOP: new website

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2008 16:31:13 schrieb John Mandereau:
> Le vendredi 26 décembre 2008 à 11:16 -0800, Patrick McCarty a écrit :
> > > If I may add my 2 geeky cents, if we used a PHP-based content
> > > management system, we could easily offer a PDF version of the website
> > > for download, through an existing plugin (there are PDF plugins for
> > > Drupal, for SPIP, for Wordpress etc).
>
> Which one would you recommend?  What's the quality of the PDF produced?

I haven't tested all of them, but so far all PDF plugins I have seen really 
suck (they produce very raw pdf, basically pure html without any styling 
converted to pdf).

> If you are volunteering to (co-)maintain the PHP site, and we have a
> powerful enough server to support the important traffic on lilypond.org
> with PHP, I'm sure it's possible.

Are there any cases when an offline-version of the webpage might be useful?
We have the docs for offline-use so there might be no important cases left...

Cheers,
Reinhold
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 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
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 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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