Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:44:30 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: what is a good toolkit for multitarget documentation? Message-ID: <20010522144430.Q88529@mail.webmonster.de>
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hey folks, i am currently evaluating different styles of implementing documentation for some multiplatform software stuff. first i though about html only docs, but this is not sufficient. then i thought about tex docs but this wont work out either. the idea is to have a single 'master repo' style document tree that can be used to dump out - html all-in-one-file and chapters - tex for pretty printing and pdf output - man pages - README, CHANGES and auxiliary documentation text files is sgml/docbook the way to go? i've seen that the freebsd handbook and other documents obviously are written using the docbook dtd, but i cannot find any pointers what software are involved in creating readable documents. i actually found a short editor/opensp/jadetex/tex howto but this would just replace the main functionality of latex, and that's not what i want. i guess my tex speaking skills are better than sgml ;-) as this seems to be arbitrary complicated, depending on the parsers and filters used, is there a) a simpler way of doing this? b) a recommended, standard, way? another question is, if it is possible to 'fold' certain paragraphs or whole chapters based on the assumption that we generate one handbook for beginners and a slightly different one for advanced users and one with source code snippets -- or even whole source files with annotations -- for developers. thx in advance! cheers, /k -- > Worry is interest paid before a debt is due. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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