Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-05-12 at 15:24 +0200, John Gage wrote: Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. How can I do it? cd doc/src/sgml make html JADEFLAGS='-V nochunks -V rootchunk' That will produce an index.html file with the entire documentation in it. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue may 13 12:10:21 -0400 2010: On ons, 2010-05-12 at 15:24 +0200, John Gage wrote: Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. How can I do it? cd doc/src/sgml make html JADEFLAGS='-V nochunks -V rootchunk' That

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org writes: There's a texinfo output that could perhaps be useful. Try make postgres.info in the doc/src/sgml directory; while it's tagged experimental and outputs a boatload of warnings, it does work for me and the text it produces is plain enough. It's

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2010-05-08 at 11:06 +0200, John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. It would be pretty easy to

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread John Gage
Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. How can I do it? John On May 12, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On lör, 2010-05-08 at 11:06 +0200, John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Geoffrey
Bruce Momjian wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. Uh, no, and no one has

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from John Gage's message of sáb may 08 05:06:35 -0400 2010: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. There's a

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of lun may 10 12:01:22 -0400 2010: There's a texinfo output that could perhaps be useful. Try make postgres.info in the doc/src/sgml directory; while it's tagged experimental and outputs a boatload of warnings, it does work for me and the text it

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread John Gage
I am using the Mac and, although the Mac does not ship with this, the Zotero add-on to Firefox includes it: /Users/johngage/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ m35vu1ez.default/zotero/pdftotext-MacIntel Will try it out. Thanks very much, John On May 10, 2010, at 1:58 PM,

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-09 Thread John Gage
Converting the pdf it text is a gruesome experience on account of numerous carriage returns that don't belong there, etc. Converting the docbook file to plain text is a possible solution, but I don't know exactly how to do that. I will look into it. The documentation, as is pointed out in

[GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-08 Thread John Gage
Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. John -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. Uh, no, and no one has ever asked for that. There must be some

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. Uh, no, and no one has ever asked