Re: documentation types

[Hendrik Sattler <ubq7@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 00:57 schrieb Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña:
> > It would be great to have a new debhelper package that creates the
> > previously chosen documentation formats from the provided SGML file on
> > installation.
>
> Debhelper? You are aware that debhelper is used on package *building* not
> on package installation, right?

I meant one to automatically add e.g. the eventually needed post-inst code.

> > And if the administrators choice is to not want any automatically created
> > formats, he may use a docbook program that displays it from the SGML or
> > XML source. Why not, such a tool may exist at one time or maybe does
> > already.
>
> It does not exist, before going into a useless discussion, show me some
> code.

As mentioned by GG, KDE Help Center is one for DocBook/XML. For no special 
reason, I prefer that as an upstream author, too (although I miss easy 
translation technics).

> Without a tool being available to do this all this is wishful thinking.

Don't forbid dreaming ;)

HS