Subject: App to download documentation
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.documentation
Date: 2003-10-30 13:41:17 GMT (4 years, 35 weeks, 3 days, 8 hours and 12 minutes ago)
Hi,
Although I could write it, it isn't on my todo-list really, and I think there
are ppl here with a lot more scripting experience than me. Anyway, perhaps
they could make a userfriendly _and_ wellwritten tool for offsite gentoo
documentation.
For instance a "gdoc" tool, with
$ gdoc --update
downloading the xml-files (in GuideXML format) from the English repository, or
$ gdoc --lang=nl --update
downloading the xml-files (in GuideXML format) from the Dutch repository. Then
$ gdoc --list
would show a listing of all available documentation, using the filename and
abstract information as description:
$ gdoc --list
gentoo-x86-install These instructions step you through the process of
installing Gentoo Linux 1.4, release version (not
_rc versions). The Gentoo Linux installation
process supports various installation approaches,
depending upon how much of the system you want to
custom-build from scratch.
[...]
Then a special feature would make it possible to convert the guide to html
(using xsltproc) or pdf (using fop) to it is readable by the user.
$ gdoc --export html gentoo-x86-install
-- Gentoo x86 Installation Guide --
Processing gentoo-x86-install.xml
gentoo-x86-install.html saved in html/
$
The gdoc-utility could store the xml-files in /var/cache/gdp (or somewhere
else) and internally use xsltproc or fop with a local guide.xsl file.
This should be doable, and deliver the possibility for the users to have the
gentoo documentation offline if they want.
Other ideas?
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
--
^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good.
(oo) Sven Vermeulen
(__) http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project