PAX PDF Output

Tags: tech, lisp,  Date: 2025-05-15

Thanks to Paul A. Patience, PAX now has PDF support. See pax-manual-v0.4.1.pdf and dref-manual-v0.4.1.pdf. The PDF is very similar to the HTML, even down to the locative types (e.g [function]) being linked to the sources on GitHub, but cross-linking between PDFs doesn't work reliably on most viewers, so that's disabled. Also, for reading PDFs so heavy on internal linking to be enjoyable, one needs a viewer that supports going back within the PDF (not the case with Chrome at the moment). Here is a blurry screenshot to entice:

There is a bit of a Christmas tree effect due to syntax highlighting and the colouring of the links. Blue links are internal to the PDF, maroon links are external. I might want to change that to make it look more like the HTML, but I have not found a way on LaTeX to underline text without breaking automatic hyphenation.