Thanks, Róbert. I get the feeling that I should have joined this list a long time ago and not just now...
f. -----Original Message----- From: Fekete, Róbert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Dienstag, 9. September 2014 11:42 To: Wegmann, Frank Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Fwd: Thanks! Hi Frank, using the webhelp-fast stylesheets from this thread reduces the build time immensely: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201310/msg00003.html (It does not solve the problem of including the ToC in every file, though.) Rober On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Wegmann, Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > That is most interesting, especially now that I tested a worst-case scenario > using a single <set> document being 42.6 MB large. This took full 12 hours to > generate all HTML pages (yes, I used a larger JVM heap space). Now this is > still something that could somehow be handled, not without pain, of course, > but it's a question of job scheduling. However, the resulting HTML files all > contain the complete TOC of the set so each of the 4,450 HTML files is around > 200 kB, totaling 8.7 GB. > Perhaps I'm missing some runtime setting here, but of course the TOC should > be present just once. Is that possible? > BTW, I also created a PDF file from the set: Processing time was adequate, > but decent, and the 9,738 pages came out just fine. > > Now, Mary, if you managed to develop a solution that operates on book level > but creates a WebHelp for a complete set, then it would be beneficial > probably not only for me, if you could tell us about it. > > Thanks, > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Tabasko [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Samstag, 6. September 2014 01:42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Fwd: Thanks! > > Frank Wegmann said: > >> our documentation sets often consist of many "modules" >> resulting in as many DocBook files (and as many PDF files), but to >> produce a single WebHelp for all of them it seems the only way is to >> wrap all DocBook files into a single <set>. Is that correct? >> Because I feel this is not really an option, since some sets comprise >> several thousand pages and we might run into serious performance >> trouble. > > That's exactly what we did. We have several "book"-level documents, from > which we generate individual PDFs, and for the Webhelp (and for the MSHelp > before it), we simply had a "set"-level document that included the > "book"-level documents. For the product for which we did this, there were > three PDFs, with page counts of (rounding up) 700, 800, and 40 (just 40) > pages. These were wrapped into one "set" for one of our Webhelp "documents". > I was able to keep the processing of this helpset (HTML and indexing) to > about 2 minutes, though we are NOT profiling. > > Just for grins, I may try running one of our "monster" docs (we have a couple > that are over 2000 pages as PDF) through it, but we have no plans to provide > those as HTML, so I haven't bothered yet. > >> (And, Mary, yes, I'm quite obviously interested in your WebHelp >> experiences as well...) > > I'm amazed at the level of interest! > > I will put together my notes -- is it OK to send a PNG (screenshot) to this > list, so you can see what it looks like?? > > > -- Mary Tabasko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [email protected] > > > Software AG – Sitz/Registered office: Uhlandstraße 12, 64297 > Darmstadt, Germany – Registergericht/Commercial register: Darmstadt HRB 1562 > - Vorstand/Management Board: Karl-Heinz Streibich (Vorsitzender/Chairman), > Dr. Wolfram Jost, Arnd Zinnhardt; - Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender/Chairman of the > Supervisory Board: Dr. Andreas Bereczky - http://www.softwareag.com >
