Re: Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. (new thread)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:51:32AM -0500, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>Corinna, Christopher, et al.:
>
>Can you help out here:
>
>Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> > On 01/04/2010 10:56 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>
> >> * I'm about to do a review of the Cygwin docs. I'd really like to
> >>   do that from a single PDF file per doc (FAQs, User Guide, API
> >>   Guide). How do I get from the SGML (or, XML, or Docbook) source
> >>   files to a single PDF?
>
> >>  > Or, if that's documented somewhere, point me at it.
>
> > I'm going to have to leave this for the maintainers of Cygwin
> > documentation to answer since I don't know DocBook stuff.
>
> >> * Does the answer to the above question, answer the more general
> >>   question of how to get from Docbook to a format of my choice,
> >>   including?:
>
> >>  > PS/PDF?
> >>  > man nroff/troff/groff source?
> >>  > XHTML/CSS?
>
> >>  > Or, if that's documented somewhere, point me at it, please.
>
> > My basic understanding is that if you use DocBook, you can get from
> > one to the other.  But I expect that's an incomplete/oversimplified
> > statement.
>
> >> * If it's not documented, and you can give me even some vague
> >>   pointers, I'd be happy to write it up, if you think anybody
> >>   would be interested.
>
> > Wouldn't hurt in my opinion.  IIRC, the biggest issue in the past has
> > been to get DocBook working under Cygwin, so Linux has been a
> > requirement to get the documentation generated, as a result.  But
> > things may have changed here.
>
>If worse comes to worse, I have access to a Linux system, so I can use
>that, but I'd prefer to do this on Cygwin, and write it up.

Write *what* up?  There is a makefile in winsup/doc.  That's how
documentation is generated.  If you want a format that is not there then
investigating the makefile would be the way to go.

cgf

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