Kevin Neufeld wrote:
Yeah, it looks like things got a little jumbled with the new documentation shuffle.

I've reinstated the link on the documentation webpage to an older pdf I found (version 1.3.2). (http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/postgis.pdf ). In my spare time, I'll work to update the postgis autobuild process to update this file on a regular basis.

Cheers,
Kevin

Okay, I've just committed some fixes to the documentation Makefile and docbook source to enable PDFs to be generated once again. "make postgis.pdf" in the documentation directory should now churn out a nice PDF.

The most important thing to note is that OpenJade is a lot more strict than xsltproc on its DocBook input source. In particular I had to change the following points:


- Remove the class attribute from the <inlinegraphic> element (according to the DocBook standard, it doesn't exist anyway)

- <note> elements cannot contain CDATA (I got around this by wrapping the content in a further set of <para> elements)

- OpenJade doesn't like empty sections in the documentation; hence I added some <para> elements containing simply an &nbsp; character


In response to my previous email, I did try using xmlroff based on the gnome toolset to generate the documentation, but I didn't think the end result was as good as the OpenJade output - if other people wish to experiment, feel free, but my feeling is we should stick with OpenJade for the time being.

Things to resolve:
        - Some parts of the documentation appear in red?
        - Inline graphics don't appear to be included (may be a case of
        moving the images/ subdirectory?)

But in the meantime, I hand this back over to the hardworking documentation authors :)


ATB,

Mark.

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