Hi Gil,

Looks good to me, but I'm not sure what to look for.  Any chance of a doc
with railroad diagrams?

Jon

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, 19:00 Gil Barmwater, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback Rony. Anyone else have any comments? If not, I
> will start posting comments on the issues I have found shortly. My goal is
> to develop a package containing the tools that anyone can download and
> install that will allow them to build our docs on Windows 10 from a fresh
> checkout from SourceForge with minimal changes to those files.
> On 12/10/2019 12:45 PM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>
> Wow, that is *fantastic* news!! Also, looking at your readme.pdf it looks
> terrific IMHO!
>
> Very curious what you have come up with to be able to generate the ooRexx
> 5.0 documentation yourself� (and also about the questions that you will
> pose in order to learn about the current problems from them and become able
> to build the ooRexx documentation in the near future and in a future-safe
> way)!
>
> Kudos!
>
> ---rony
>
> On 10.12.2019 18:17, Gil Barmwater wrote:
>
> I know it has been over a month since I posted the note below but I now
> have a lot of progress to report! I have obtained the tools needed to build
> our docs - they are open source and seem well supported - and have
> successfully built one document using them on Windows 10. There are no
> dependencies on Publican other than three files I chose to retain to
> simplify the transition. Installing and using the tools was pretty painless
> but in doing so I uncovered a number of issues with our documents, most of
> which are due to our use of Publican and what it does "under the covers".
> Rather than turning this email into a "book", I will send separate notes on
> each issue and the changes needed in order to use the new tools. In the
> meantime, here <https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7p09b6zm0vghqc/readme.pdf?dl=0>
> is a link to a file in my Dropbox for the readme.pdf that I built. Once the
> link opens in your browser, you can click on the ... icon on the right
> which will open a menu that will allow you to download the file. If you
> then compare it to the readme.pdf that is in the docs folder of your 5.0.0
> ooRexx installation or the Files section on SourceForge, you will see it is
> (almost) identical. The differences are 1) the text has been updated in
> section 2.2, 2) the Copyright dates on the first page now show -2019, 3)
> the flow of the text in some sections is slightly different, in some cases
> causing text to flow to the next page, and 4) the Table of Contents has
> more levels listed. I did not feel that either of the last two items were
> worth pursuing. Let me know what you think after you've had a look.
>
> Gil B.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Just so everyone doesn't think I've abandoned this effort, I am pursuing
> another approach to building the docs. You can expect an update when I've
> made some more progress.
>
> On 11/4/2019 4:16 PM, Gil Barmwater wrote:
>
> ?I will go back to docbook.org and do some more reading before proceeding
> any further with Pandoc.
>
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