Joshua, thats good, glad you are on top of it. I note the HTML version has made it to the web site. Now, thats great but I note it still has my reference to carefully breed mice in Section 1.1
You seem to be the new owner of this document, maybe it needs that cleaning up a little ? David On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 23:19 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > David Bannon <[email protected]> writes: > > > > On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 19:06 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > ...... > > > I'll put together a couple of bzr branches that can actually build > > > docs one way or the other, and we can compare them. > > > > Joshua, I note this is still pending. > [...] > > Mm--I blame the myriad holiday distractions.... > > Good news, though--I did finally emerge from the holidays and find some > time to pull everything together: > > I just pushed up the texinfo changeover, including your additions > and Til's, into the foxtrotgps-dev branch in bzr; and I also put > the manual in HTML format up on the website (there's also a PDF > up there in the same directory as the HTML manual, I just haven't > found a place to put a link to it...). I took a few minor > liberties before committing: fixed typos, normalised punctuation > (e.g.: "eg" -> "e.g.") and screenshot file-names, added more hyperlinks, > broke the "menu of common operations, allowing such things as..." > paragraph out into a bulletted list (following advice from a local > proofreader), used the same `main window' screenshot as is already > on the website.... > > For the time being, I've collected all of the screenshots into > a branch on Launchpad, and added a Makefile rule that fetches them > on demand. If you invoke any of the `make dist' targets, all of > the screenshots will get bundled into the resulting tarball/directory > along with the full manual in HTML format and the `shim' man page, > and those are installed by `make install'. > > The PDF version of the manual builds with "make -C doc pdf" > (and PostScript and DVI outputs can be generated similarly), > but it doesn't happen by default (I think you were right > that HTML is probably a better default format than PDF). > "make -C doc foxtrotgps.txt" also works, but also doesn't > happen by default (should it?). > > I've run through a few tests to verify, and I believe that building > from tarballs output by `make dist' will not require help2man, > makeinfo, or any of the other Texinfo utilties out of the box. > The tarballs are *much* larger that they have been up to now, > though (~2 MB compressed with gzip, ~1.7 MB compressed with xz, > which is ~4x the size of the 1.1.1 release tarballs!). > > Oh--I also turned Automake's `maintainer-mode' on *by default*. > Tracking the version.texi in bzr actually turned out to be > a little problematic, because it ends up getting updated > every time someone runs ./autogen.sh or otherwise needs > to generate the "configure" script from configure.in; just > turning maintainer-mode on by default solves that problem > handily, but also seems like a good idea in general (see > the comments on commit #224). > _______________________________________________ This message is sent to you from [email protected] mailing list. Visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps to manage your subscription For more information, check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS
