Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 81550 invoked by uid 500); 29 Jun 2003 17:46:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 81539 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2003 17:46:37 -0000 Received: from venus.open.ac.uk (137.108.143.2) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 29 Jun 2003 17:46:37 -0000 Received: from oufcnt2.open.ac.uk (actually host halley.open.ac.uk) by venus.open.ac.uk via SMTP Local (Mailer 3.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:46:30 +0100 Message-id: Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:46:26 +0100 Subject: Re: AW: Ant Documentation To: dev@ant.apache.org From: Andrew Marlow References: <879A5AD5DD0ED511891F0003473A9B5608FF6B2A@Z011004> In-Reply-To: <879A5AD5DD0ED511891F0003473A9B5608FF6B2A@Z011004> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N dev@ant.apache.org writes: >> I am trying to improve the Ant documentation. > >> I am using an approach which, with the help >> of some scripts I am working on, will finally result >> in a DocBook Ant manual. As a stepping stone to this end >> I am doing the document in LaTeX. > >So you will write the Ant doco in LaTeX? Yes. > >Rewrite the whole docs??? Yes. > >... and future modification of the docs? No. > >> I have an awk script >> to do the LaTeX2DocBook conversion. This needs to be >> rewritten in Perl so that it is portable. > >Ok, perl is fine. For faster port to windows you can use >Cygwin. I think it contains an awk. Yes it does. I already have the awk script. I intend to move straight to perl. > >> Attached is the result of running latex2html on the source. >> Please let me have some feedback on this ASAP. > >I got no attachements. Please see http:/www.marlowa.plus.com/a2.tar.bz2 This is a bzip'd tarball of HTML generated from the LaTeX source. > > >> This is quite alot of work and I am only roughly half-way through. >> I need to know if people will be happy with this. > >Sure - many people asked for printable versions of the ant doc. And >you can print LaTeX docs very well :-) I know :-) > > > >Jan > Regards, Andrew ---- There is an emerald here the size of a plover's egg! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org