Re: [PLUG] file container format

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

I think you've completely misunderstood Soumyashant's
question. Markdown's main use is for generating new content,
particularly blog posts.  He's looking for a way to combine multiple
PDF files into a single file, ideally with a combined table of
contents. That seems to me to be a fundamentally different thing.

I ran into similar issues when I was taking grad classes at
Drexel. Rather than trying to combine everything into a single file, I
used version control systems (first subversion, later git) to put each
class into a single project. Under that project I stored the class
syllabus, lecture notes, homework assignments, supplemental reading,
and everything else associated with the class.  Using a VCS let me
track changes (useful since many of my classes involved programming
assignments) and also made it easy to mirror the projects to my
desktop, laptop, department servers, etc.

Walt

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:29:19AM -0400, Doug Stewart wrote:
> Have you considered Markdown?
> 
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Soumyashant Nayak
> <soumyashant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there some container format where one can store pdf, txt, etc files
> > together and navigate easily ?
> >
> > The reason I am asking this is , I would like all my professor's lecture
> > notes to be in one file. The way I generally do it is append all of them
> > using pdftk.
> >
> > But since there are no CONTENTS pages, I have trouble navigating. I would
> > like to view the links of each lecture slide on the left of the document
> > viewer.
> > Also it would be nice if one could embed the source code examples (text
> > files) into the file so that one can easily reference them off-hand.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Soumyashant
> >
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