PDF generation

As mentioned before, not every system engineer you come across will work with ESL. Moreover, establishing a culture change within a company from document-driven-engineering to model-drive-engineering is not a small feat. Therefore, ESL specifications can be converted into seemingly natural language PDF documents.

For example, check out the generated PDF document of the example pump specification. You can add epilogue and prologue chapters written in Markdown to provide additional context with the specification. In this case, an Introduction chapter and a Conclusion chapter is added.

All other chapters are generated based on the ESL specification. At the start of each of these chapters one can find a component-function-spec multi-domain matrix that shows the dependencies between the components and function-specifications discussed within that chapter. The figures are by definition consistent with the written text. This eliminates inconsistencies between text and dependency figures as often encountered within manually written documents.