[OpenAFS] Happy Holidays -- Another year in the life of OpenAFS

[Jason Edgecombe]

docbook already does hyperlinks and page pointers. I suspect that a 
custom stylesheet would be the best option.

On 12/23/2011 06:21 PM, Ted Creedon wrote:
> Theres a lot more to the Latex coding, hyperlinks, footnotes, anchors for
> page pointers, etc. but once its setup some perl scripts should do the
> trick,
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jason Edgecombe<jason@rampaginggeek.com>wrote:
>
>> Probably. I would be surprised if you couldn't do what you need. you would
>> need the proper backend and stylesheet. I don't know enough docbook to say
>> for certain.
>>
>> dblatex is a Docbook backend that converts docbook to latex. I suppose
>> that you could set the paper size in docbook, convert to latex, and  set
>> the quarto paper size in latex to get the proper orientations.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> On 12/23/2011 11:11 AM, Ted Creedon wrote:
>>
>>> Does any docbook conversion support typesetting or am I back to latex?
>>>
>>> I meant quarto, I have binding&   shearing although I feel like Ben
>>> Franklin
>>>
>>> sometimes.
>>>
>>> The handbook is quite handy.
>>>
>>> Tedc
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM, chas williams - CONTRACTOR<
>>> chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>   wrote:
>>>
>>>   i would hazard that content is more important than 'ease of use'.  it
>>>> really doesnt matter if you can carry the manual with you if it doesnt
>>>> provide any useful help.
>>>>
>>>> there is nothing to prevent the current docbook from being rendered
>>>> into "quarto" (i suspect you meant folio since quarto would be hard to
>>>> use without cutting and binding). you could just do it by simply
>>>> post-processing the .pdf with pdfnup.  if you feel there is something
>>>> specific missing, please open a bug.  i know we are currently missing
>>>> an index for the manual pages -- it got lost in the conversion.
>>>>
>>>> we also have .epub and .mobi (kindle) versions of the manuals available
>>>> (generated from the same docbook/pod that is generating the .pdf
>>>> and .html) for those that have moved beyond the whole dead trees thing.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:51:39 -0800
>>>> Ted Creedon<tcreedon@easystreet.**net<tcreedon@easystreet.net>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Its not the docs content, just the formatting and ease of use.
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Jeffrey Altman<
>>>>> jaltman@secure-endpoints.com>   wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   On 12/22/2011 8:54 PM, David Boyes wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 1. Recreated the IBM format including hyperlinks, appendix,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> permuted
>>>>> index,
>>>>>>>>> Etc
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have the original doc tools used to create the IBM docs, and the
>>>>>> ability
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to produce and translate the .boo files. These tools can
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> automagically do
>>>>> the above if asked.
>>>>>> All of our documentation is now in Docbook.  They include hyperlinks,
>>>>>> the appendix, index, etc.  The original IBM docs are of little interest
>>>>>> in 2011.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeffrey Altman
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> OpenAFS-info mailing list
>> OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
>> https://lists.openafs.org/**mailman/listinfo/openafs-info<https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info>
>>