On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, David Medinets <[email protected]>wrote:
> The new documents look good but can you turn off java highlighting? I find > the different colors distracting. > Are there any specific colors that are bothering you? I don't know if this is configurable, but we could look into it. For example, I find the colors in the pdf much more pleasing than the colors in the html, which are totally different. The bright red for string literals seems unnecessary. Billie > > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Billie Rinaldi <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I've been experimenting with converting the user manual to asciidoc. On > > balance, I think the resulting html and pdf are better than our existing > > ones, and the maintenance will be easier. For a preview, see > > > > http://people.apache.org/~billie/asciidoc_user_manual > > > > In particular > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~billie/asciidoc_user_manual/accumulo_user_manual.html > > and > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~billie/asciidoc_user_manual/accumulo_user_manual.pdf > > > > To generate these documents, I installed asciidoc, dblatex, and > > source-highlight, then ran the following commands. > > > > To generate html: asciidoc -a toc -d book accumulo_user_manual.txt > > To generate xml: asciidoc -a toc -b docbook -d book > > accumulo_user_manual.txt > > To generate pdf: dblatex -tpdf accumulo_user_manual.xml > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Billie > > >
