On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Giampaolo Fadel<gp.fa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I forked my repository thg-manual into thg-manul-rst
> (http://bitbucket.org/paolof/thg-manual-rst/overview/) to do some tests with
> rst as source.
>
> I manually converted few chapters from docbook to txt, I didn't convert many
> special tags like, picture action, guimenu and so.
> I inserted in the toolchain the rst2docbook converter from
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
>
> All works fine! chm, pdf and html are generated. :)

BTW: None of the CHM files I download work on my machine.  Perhaps
they reference files that are only on your computer?

> Now I want to fix all the omitted tags in this few chapters, and test the
> result. If OK I'll converted the whole manual.
>
> A doubt. rst2docbook seems a lit bit old. Is it very stable? or is it no
> longer maintained?

Seems pretty straight-forward, so perhaps it's just stable.  But we
should keep our eyes out for tools that look better maintained.

> I didn't test rst2xml but it generates a xml which is not docbook. In this
> case we have to write our stylesheet to generate pdf, chm or convert in
> docbook (http://membres.lycos.fr/ebellot/dn2dbk/)
>
> Another way if http://jrst.labs.libre-entreprise.org/jrst/en/ . I quickly
> tested it withou success.

Yuck.  Would like to avoid Java if possible.

--
Steve

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