Grazie Andrea, just for the records, I am adding some more info down below... ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Simone Giannecchini GeoSolutions S.A.S. Owner - Software Engineer Via Carignoni 51 55041 Camaiore (LU) Italy
phone: +39 0584983027 fax: +39 0584983027 mob: +39 333 8128928 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://simboss.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonegiannecchini ------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Andrea Aime<aa...@opengeo.org> wrote: > Simone Giannecchini ha scritto: >> Ciao, >> quick question, I have been looking around trying to install sphinx on >> my windows laptop so that I can write docs wherever I am , expecially >> in spare time. However I haven't found a decent guide yet that would >> guide through the process. Does anyone have a link to a tutorial or >> something like it? > > I could not find one but somehow I managed to install it when I still > was working on Windows. The vague steps I remember: > - installed Python itself (ActiveState version I believe, not sure) > - installed MSYS (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys) I already had that installed, so that windows looks like ubuntu, just a little bit more unstable :-). > - don't remember if I installed easy-install or if that came along > with the Python install (it's part of the setup-tools packages > on Linux, don't remember for Windows) > - put all of the above in the classpath I have installed python 2.5.4 from here http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.4/ (you need to add it to the path) and setup_tools from here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools (you need to add to the path the dir %PYTHON_PATH%\Scripts) > > Then you run: > easy-install sphinx > > and this installs sphinx, > > cd doc/user > make html worked as a charm > > And this generates the documentation. > > In order to generate PDF one has to install Latex along with all > the imaginable extras because our setup is using a font that is > not in the base Latex installs (at least not on Linux). > Good to see that someone is still using latex. I have been forced to abandone it since everybody wanted .doc or.odt, I think it's about time to revamp my latex skills. Simone. > Cheers > Andrea > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
