On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 09:24:06AM +0200, Martin Liška wrote: > On 10/17/22 16:16, Paul Iannetta wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > > Thank you very much for porting the documentation to Sphinx, it is > > very convenient to use, especially the menu on the left and the > > search bar. > > Thanks, I also like it! > > > > > However, I also regularly browse and search the documentation through > > info, especially when I want to use regexps to search or need to > > include a special character (eg.,+,-,_,(; this can happen when I > > search for '(define' ) for example) in the search string. > > > > Does the port to Sphinx means the end of texinfo? Or, will both be > > available as it is the case now with the official texinfo and your > > unofficial splichal.eu pages. > > It will be still available same as now where manual pages and info pages > are built if you compile GCC from sources. We haven't been publishing manual > pages and info pages on our web pages, people typically get these from > their distribution packages.
As long as it is possible to build the info manual with "make info", even through something like rst2texinfo, I would be happy. Would it be possible to see the rst source of the port so as to try rst2texinfo on it? > > Does it help? Or do you expect any change regarding what we publish at: > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ > ? Currently, there is a tarball with texinfo sources for all the manuals for each version. Thanks, Paul > > Cheers, > Martin > > > > > Paul > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 03:28:34PM +0200, Martin Liška wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> Based on the very positive feedback I was given at the Cauldron Sphinx > >> Documentation BoF, > >> I'm planning migrating the documentation on 9th November. There are still > >> some minor comments > >> from Sandra when it comes to the PDF output, but we can address that once > >> the conversion is done. > >> > >> The reason I'm sending the email now is that I was waiting for latest > >> Sphinx release (5.3.0) that > >> simplifies reference format for options and results in much simpler Option > >> summary section ([1]) > >> > >> The current GCC master (using Sphinx 5.3.0) converted docs can be seen > >> here: > >> https://splichal.eu/scripts/sphinx/ > >> > >> If you see any issues with the converted documentation, or have a feedback > >> about it, > >> please reply to this email. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Martin > >> > >> [1] https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/10840 > >> [1] > >> https://splichal.eu/scripts/sphinx/gcc/_build/html/gcc-command-options/option-summary.html > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
