Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements - many complaints

[E. Weddington]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As E. Weddington wrote:
>
>  
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> > 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).
>  
This is what I have :-(
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For documents of type "docbook":
fo
html
html-nochunks
htmlhelp
javahelp
man
txt
xhtml
xhtml-nochunks
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Agreed, If I can get PS, then I have access to ghostscript.

>  
>
> > > 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.
> > >      
>
>  
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> > Which tool is this?
> >    
>
> doclifter:
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> http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter/
>
> I've found it referenced in that document from him:
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> http://commmunity.linux.com/howtos/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/index.shtml
>
>  
Thanks for the link. I'll take a look.

Eric