Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-17 Thread Andrea Aime
Andrea Aime ha scritto: > Well, I guess either the docs are and stay editable with XMLMind, or > you're going the road of the lone fighter (and you won't like like > in the long run...). This article is relevant too: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Authoring-With-Eclipse/AuthoringWithEcli

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-17 Thread Andrea Aime
Adrian Custer ha scritto: > Hey Andrea, all, > > Andrea, as you are right to say automating the build may be difficult. > However, I don't really see the point. It's easy enough to have a PDF in > subversion and have the authors regenerate that from Docbook > periodically. Same for html. If you ar

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-17 Thread Adrian Custer
Hey Andrea, all, Andrea, as you are right to say automating the build may be difficult. However, I don't really see the point. It's easy enough to have a PDF in subversion and have the authors regenerate that from Docbook periodically. Same for html. If you are editing docbook, you have a producti

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-17 Thread Andrea Aime
Jody Garnett ha scritto: > We have recently been using docbook to go to eclipse help files (this > has been great). We did try pdf and so > on but will have to ask Gerhard here for how effective it was in practice. I asked. He used xsltproc instead of java based stuff for html because he could no

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-16 Thread Paul Ramsey
The notes indicate that they are now beyond "simplified" docbook. Still, if it's maven1... On 16-Aug-06, at 9:47 AM, Andrea Aime wrote: > Paul Ramsey ha scritto: >> I have the PostGIS documentation in docbook. Going to HTML isn't >> hard, going to PDF has been consistently flakey. And the

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-16 Thread Andrea Aime
Paul Ramsey ha scritto: > I have the PostGIS documentation in docbook. Going to HTML isn't hard, > going to PDF has been consistently flakey. And the tools used to do all > of this tend to be an admixture of stuff not always available on > standard distributions. On the other hand, perhaps th

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-16 Thread Jody Garnett
We have recently been using docbook to go to eclipse help files (this has been great). We did try pdf and so on but will have to ask Gerhard here for how effective it was in practice. Jody > I have the PostGIS documentation in docbook. Going to HTML isn't > hard, going to PDF has been consiste

Re: [Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-16 Thread Paul Ramsey
I have the PostGIS documentation in docbook. Going to HTML isn't hard, going to PDF has been consistently flakey. And the tools used to do all of this tend to be an admixture of stuff not always available on standard distributions. On the other hand, perhaps the Java world has solved thi

[Geotools-devel] Docbook tool support

2006-08-16 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi all, before going all the way and using docbook again, did someone check that we may be able to turn docbook stuff into pdf and html using maven2? Otherwise it may become a hard call, since developers are split on windows, various linux distros, and mac too. Cheers Andrea -