[PATCH app-xfs 2/3] doc: remove pdf target for developer's doc

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 21:34:24 PST 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:29 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>> It breaks the build under the default configure options
>> Cannot find anyone who can build it.
>
> I swear it worked when I added it - I'm not sure why or when it stopped.
> Since the documentation is only useful to 3 or 4 people in the world,
> it's not something I'm going to worry about.
>
> It's just the pdf format, the html and text format is still there. There are
> several tools involved in building that format and it probably takes a magic
> combination. I could not find any other pdf doc which is created from xmlto
> in all of xorg.

One thing to know is that there are two pdf backends for xmlto. One of
them uses fop, and I've definitely used docbook rendered to pdf from
fop before. The docbook toolchain for fop is a little more involved,
but it produces good results. Will try it out a little later.

--
Dan


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list