A script to convert Vim documentation to hyperlinked PDF, using LaTeX
These scripts create a PDF document containing the documentation that ships with Vim, as well as the Vim FAQ. The resulting file is more than 2,500 pages of hyperlinked, colorful PDF.
The resulting PDF file can be downloaded at https://nathangrigg.net/vimdoc/
The text to LaTeX conversion script, along with linking and highlighting, are based on the text to html conversion script written by Carlo Teubner.
The PDF can be generated by running make
. The automatic build script requires
latexmk
and xelatex
. It also uses some fonts that you may not have
installed on your computer. You can edit the tex
files to get around this.
The contents.txt
file can be used to reorder the text files in the pdf
or eliminate some entirely. Note that any links into text files that
are removed will break.