> I am trying to improve the Ant documentation. Always welcome :-)
> I would like to have a single multi-platform open format > document. I understand that the project preference is to > use DocBook. DocBook? Thatīs really new to me. I only know the plain HTMLs. There are tests generating the docs via XDoclet, but DocBook... > 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? Rewrite the whole docs??? ... and future modification of the docs? > 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. > Attached is the result of running latex2html on the source. > Please let me have some feedback on this ASAP. I got no attachements. > 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 :-) Jan
