On 2013-08-14 14:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> My next step is to deprecate the SGML backend tools to generate HTML,
> PDF, PostScript, and DVI in our build system.  Instead of those I will
> introduce as default into our build system the xmlto alternatives for
> producing all of those backend formats (with DVI as an option that is
> turned off by default until the upstream bug in xmlto concerning dvi
> generation can be fixed).  The resulting HTML, PDF, PostScript, and
> (eventually) DVI results will have an extremly bland style.

To Andrew and Orion:

I have updated (as of revision 12490) the old documentation build
logic to make it much easier to understand for both the
DOCBOOK_XML_BACKEND=OFF case (which now gets you the old SGML/DSSSL
backend results) and the newly implemented default DOCBOOK_XML_BACKEND=ON
case (as described above).

Please give DOCBOOK_XML_BACKEND=OFF and the default
DOCBOOK_XML_BACKEND=ON cases a try (using the -DBUILD_DOC=ON cmake
option and the install target in doc/docbook/src) and let me know what
you think of the results.  Both those options currently work for me.
DOCBOOK_XML_BACKEND=OFF should pretty much give you what was available
before. For the default DOCBOOK_XML_BACKEND=ON case, pay attention to
the messages from xmlto _at run time_.  It will warn you if you need
some additional packages installed such as fop.

Unless there is something you guys dislike about these results that
can be fixed in the short term, I am pretty much finished with it
although there are some obvious issues mentioned in the commit message
for revision 12490 that will need to be addressed in the long term.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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