Re: [api-dev] Adding PDF and ODT downloads for Wiki Books
On 01/19/09 16:23, Clayton wrote: One of the things we've discussed here on the list is the availability of the various books (especially the Developer's Guide) as prepared documents for download/offline reading. A small update on the progress. I have added predefined Collections for each chapter in the Developer´s Guide, and added a link to the TOP of the first page of each chapter. What comes next? - Validate the Collections to make sure that no pages were missed - Compile the individual DevGuide chapters into one book - make the single book available for download on the http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Wiki_Books page After that? - Clean up the ODTs and PDFs to make them more readable and presentable - Find a way to automate the generation of the Collections so that they can easily be built on each major release (I will have to call on you guys here to help with the scripting/cronjob side of things once we are at that stage... I´ll provide more info on what needs to be done when I get there) C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
Re: [api-dev] Adding PDF and ODT downloads for Wiki Books
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Clayton wrote: > This provides a fixed static document valid for a specific release that > people can download and read offline. The latest and most current > version will always be the Wiki version (the functionality for creating > your own custom PDF remains in place of course). > > Would this fill the need for downloadable documentation for offline reading? > Thanks this is great. I have had a few issues generating PDF books using the collections method. This really helps. Ashok - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
Re: [api-dev] Adding PDF and ODT downloads for Wiki Books
I have been working on some ideas for this, and have added a new link to the three big Wiki books on the Documentation Wiki page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation Great link (was not aware of it)! That's because I just added it yesterday :-) Would this fill the need for downloadable documentation for offline reading? *YES*, definitely! I will keep working on it. The Developer's Guide will take some time as it is a very large document... ~900 Wiki pages or ~1500 A4 pages. I also want to clean up the download versions... but that will come later. For now they will simply be static snapshots of the Collections. P.S.: Not sure who could do that: but it would be nice :) if the basic and shell code samples were color coded like the XML config files. Makes reading and comprehending *much* easier. That can be done by simply wrapping the code samples with the lang="language">code sample tags. This tag was not used when the DevGuide was ported to the Wiki - wasn't available then. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
Re: [api-dev] Adding PDF and ODT downloads for Wiki Books
Hi Clayton, Clayton wrote: > One of the things we've discussed here on the list is the availability > of the various books (especially the Developer's Guide) as prepared > documents for download/offline reading. > > I have been working on some ideas for this, and have added a new link to > the three big Wiki books on the Documentation Wiki page: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation > Great link (was not aware of it)! > The new link in "Download as PDF / ODT" at the bottom of each Wiki book > section takes you to a new Wiki page: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Wiki_Books > > On this new page I've added a STATIC ODF and ODT file for the > Administration Guide (only doing one book as a test - others will be > added later). > > This provides a fixed static document valid for a specific release that > people can download and read offline. The latest and most current > version will always be the Wiki version (the functionality for creating > your own custom PDF remains in place of course). > > Would this fill the need for downloadable documentation for offline reading? > *YES*, definitely! Great work of yours! Regards, ---rony P.S.: Not sure who could do that: but it would be nice :) if the basic and shell code samples were color coded like the XML config files. Makes reading and comprehending *much* easier. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org
