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Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complain
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Joerg Wunsch |
Subject: |
Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:06:15 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
As E. Weddington wrote:
> So far, my only objection with using DocBook directly is just trying
> find a decent editor (in Windows) that can handle the format. The
> format is pretty verbose if you have to write it raw.
Agreed. My situation isn't that much better on Unix either.
> My only limitation that I currently have is figuring out how to
> convert DocBook to PDF. Cygwin doesn't seem to have a quick and easy
> solution out of the box. The "xmlto" that comes with Cygwin can
> convert DocBook to FO (among other things), but it stops there. No
> direct to PDF.
Can you create PS? From there, it's easy to go to PDF (using
Ghostscript).
> My only other reasoning for AsciiDoc is that what it provides is
> "good enough", at least for the WinAVR user manual.
Yeah, for things like the WinAVR user manual, I fully agree.
> >As Eric Raymond's tool could save all the existing man page work
> >for avrdude into docbook format, it seems to be an option to me
> >here, too.
> Which tool is this?
doclifter:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter/
I've found it referenced in that document from him:
http://commmunity.linux.com/howtos/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/index.shtml
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- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, (continued)
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Joerg Wunsch, 2005/02/06
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Russell Shaw, 2005/02/06
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Brian Dean, 2005/02/06
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, E. Weddington, 2005/02/06
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, E. Weddington, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints,
Joerg Wunsch <=
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, E. Weddington, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, E. Weddington, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Joerg Wunsch, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, E. Weddington, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Joerg Wunsch, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Brian Dean, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Brian Dean, 2005/02/09
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Joerg Wunsch, 2005/02/09
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Russell Shaw, 2005/02/07
- Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints, Bob Paddock, 2005/02/16