A pragmatic toolchain: TeX and friends and friends of friends

Steve Peter Pragmatic Programmers Play (30min) Download: FLV | MOV | Ogg | mp3

In this talk, we present the toolchain used to produce the award-winning Pragmatic Bookshelf titles and examine some of the pleasures and pitfalls encountered using TeX, XML, XSLT, Ruby and other open technologies.

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