Re: Documentation in docbook

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:10:07AM -0500, Pradeep Padala wrote:
> Hi,
>    Around mid-summer last year, I thought of converting all the ncurses
> documentation including man pages into docbook. In the process, I wrote
> patches to tidy and doclifter and was able to convert the html docs and
> man pages to docbook.
>   The sgml generated from man pages had some problems the last time I
> looked at it (8 months ago). The new doclifter might create better sgml.
> But I do not have time to look into it. So I removed the man page sgml
> from the documentation package I was creating.

:-(

>   Currently the package has the following documents in docbook SGML
> 
> NCurses Programming HOWTO
> Introduction to (N) Curses Programming
> A hackers guide to NCurses
> 
>   I have generated html and pdf documents from the docbook source. You can
> look at the generated files at
> 
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/ncdoc/html/
> 
>   The whole package with assorted utilities, Makefile, programs
> (referenced in the HOWTO) is at
> 
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/ncdoc/ncdoc.tar.gz

got a copy.
 
>   Is it possible to include this stuff into standard distribution? I
> can maintain the docbook related things and ofcourse my HOWTO.

I'll take a close(r) look at this on the weekend.

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