Re: [PLUG] file container format

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

Walt:
You're right, I did misunderstand.

The DVCS model/mentality is an intriguing one. It doesn't necessarily
cover the ToC problem but it does allow for easily packaging things
up.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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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