Re: HTML documentation - one file per function

[Ben Abbott]

On May 5, 2008, at 10:05 PM, John Swensen wrote:

> On May 3, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> > lør, 03 05 2008 kl. 11:54 -0400, skrev John Swensen:
> > > Is there a way to process the docstrings so as to create one file  
> > > per
> > > function?  I have started work on OctaveDE again and want to make a
> > > help browser.  I can simply use the existing HTML documentation, but
> > > would prefer to have it in the format of one HTML file per function.
> > > I would then try to work in cross referencing and the like.  Has
> > > someone already done this before?
> >
> > You mean like the Function Reference at the Octave-Forge web site,
> > http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html ?
> >
> > Søren
> As a follow-on question, who is the wizard who wrote the code to  
> parse all the DOCSTRINGS for Octave and Octave-forge into this HTML  
> format?  Do you know if there is way to convert the texinfo stuff to  
> docbook?  This would make the creation of the help browser with  
> search capabilities infinitely easier.
>
> John

I have no experience in this, but doesn't makeinfo do that?

http://linux.die.net/man/1/makeinfo

makeinfo --docbook foo.texi

Ben