On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:57:58AM +1100, Scott Smedley wrote: > Hi Dominik, > > > > If you do not want to produce this documentation please use: > > > > > > ./configure --disable-htmldoc > > > > As the process take four times longer than building the > > executables, may I suggest that > > > > a) the html pages are not built unless you specifically ask for > > them, > > Ok. I will change this soon. > > > b) the new man page stuff is disabled by default. > > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
There are still the normal man pages which are fine. The current state of the XML documentation prevents me from writing any documentation. As almost everything I do has to be documented, it prevents me to do almost anything. > > > For developers, the XML source files supersede the old fvwm man page. > > > Please make any documentation changes here & NOT in the fvwm/fvwm.1.in > > > file. > > > > Well, I'd be willing to try that, but I am *not* going to search > > through *400* files for the contents I want to edit (and all cross > > references). There *must* be a way to have just one file per man > > page. > > I'd like to be able to accomodate, but by having everything in one file > we'd lose the ability to have separate HTML pages for each command. > IMO, that's probably the most useful feature. See: > > http://members.optusnet.com.au/~scott.fvwm/allCommands.html > It's natural to split up the documentation into smaller files. As an > analogy, consider the FVWM source code - we don't have a single fvwm.c > source file to make "searching" easier, but lots of separate source files > with grouped functionality. We're not talking about source but documentation. In my eyes having split pages is the one "feature" in html docs that makes it completely unusable: you can not browse or search it in a sensible way. And it's hell to read. A single page with intra- document links is much more usable. In any case, we're talking about Unix, not windoze. It can't be *this* hard to make a script that extracts the individual files with the command documentation from one big master source file to generate the html docs. > I agree though, splitting up the documentation into multiple files has > made "searching" a little harder. But, as Dan indicates, a few simple > 'grep' commands should suffice. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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