On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 06:38:53 -0700 John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > > On Aug 29, 2015, at 5:43 AM, Mike Evans <mi...@saxicola.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Another random thought then. > > > > I use asciidoc for pretty much all the docs I write, not much admittedly > > but it's easy to learn and can produce many output formats. I just used > > https://github.com/oreillymedia/docbook2asciidoc to convert the guide to > > asciidoc using: > > > > $ java -jar /home/mikee/Projects/docbook2asciidoc/saxon9he.jar -s > > gnucash-guide.xml -o gnucash-guide.asc > > /home/mikee/Projects/docbook2asciidoc/d2a.xsl chunk-output=true > > > > This produces an asccidoc file for each chapter plus the master page. > > Converting this to html using > > > > $ asciidoc gnucash-guide.asc > > > > produces the entire guide as html, of course many other output formats are > > possible including docbook. The only issue is that *none* of the figures > > are included. I'm not an expert on XML parsing using .xsl stylesheets but > > I suspect this could be easily(?) remedied by editing the d2a.xsl to > > correctly include the figures, as I say I'm no expert here. Some of the > > (inevitable) minor formatting issues can be solved manually. > > > > If solving the figures issue is possible then the documenters would need to > > learn asciidoc markup. This is a lot easier than docbook though and since > > all the files are just plain ascii tracking changes in GIT are > > straightforward. The concept of separate files for each chapter is also > > preserved. > > > > As I say, just a thought. > > > > Incidentally LibreOffice can also use multi-file documents/books, but I > > agree that change tracking is a barrier. > > Mike, > > Gee, deja-vu: > http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2013-December/036626.html > and following. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > Oh dear, early stages of dementia perhaps? -- PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x00CDB13500D7AB53 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
