On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Steve Borho<st...@borho.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Giampaolo Fadel<gp.fa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yuck. Would like to avoid Java if possible. >> >> If we want PDF, via docbook we can use FOP that is Java, or we can use >> Latex from docbook o directly from rst. But I think that latex introduces >> some >> other requirements and complication in the toolchain of build. > > This got me thinking. There are tools out there named rst2html and rst2pdf, > and > I've just used them to generate html and pdf versions of your sample > thg-manual.txt. > > They do work, but it's not as nice as the versions that get piped > through docbook, but I didn't even try to provide stylesheets, etc. > > I'll wait till you convert the rest of the manual to rST and then see > what options work best.
As many of you have already found, I have successfully built the hgbook based on Mercurial 1.3 and uploaded it to our download page. This involved a great amount of fiddly work, mostly installing java packages and getting the classpath just right (with zero useful feedback). If I can build the hgbook (which is written directly in docbook), I should be able to build our docs using your rst -> docbook -> pdf/html workflow on Linux (everything but the CHM, which seems to only buildable on Windows). I intend to ship both the hgbook and our docs with 0.8.1 and include links to them in the start menu. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
