Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of jue may 13 12:10:21 -0400 2010: > On ons, 2010-05-12 at 15:24 +0200, John Gage wrote: > > Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. > > How can I do it? > > cd doc/src/sgml > make html JADEFLAGS='-V nochunks -V rootchunk' >

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-05-12 at 15:24 +0200, John Gage wrote: > Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. > How can I do it? cd doc/src/sgml make html JADEFLAGS='-V nochunks -V rootchunk' That will produce an index.html file with the entire documentation in it. -- Sent vi

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread John Gage
Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. How can I do it? John On May 12, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On lör, 2010-05-08 at 11:06 +0200, John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormousl

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2010-05-08 at 11:06 +0200, John Gage wrote: > Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? > This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular > expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future > reference. It would be pretty easy to

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Alvaro Herrera writes: > There's a texinfo output that could perhaps be useful. Try > "make postgres.info" in the doc/src/sgml directory; while it's tagged > "experimental" and outputs a boatload of warnings, it does work for me and the > text it produces is plain enough. It's pretty good indeed

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread John Gage
I am using the Mac and, although the Mac does not ship with this, the Zotero add-on to Firefox includes it: /Users/johngage/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/ m35vu1ez.default/zotero/pdftotext-MacIntel Will try it out. Thanks very much, John On May 10, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Geoff

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of lun may 10 12:01:22 -0400 2010: > There's a texinfo output that could perhaps be useful. Try > "make postgres.info" in the doc/src/sgml directory; while it's tagged > "experimental" and outputs a boatload of warnings, it does work for me and the > text it

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from John Gage's message of sáb may 08 05:06:35 -0400 2010: > Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? > This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular > expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future > reference. There's a

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Geoffrey
Bruce Momjian wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. Uh, no, and no one has e

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-09 Thread John Gage
Converting the pdf it text is a gruesome experience on account of numerous carriage returns that don't belong there, etc. Converting the docbook file to plain text is a possible solution, but I don't know exactly how to do that. I will look into it. The documentation, as is pointed out in

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: > John Gage wrote: > > Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? > > This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular > > expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future > > reference. > > Uh, no, and no one has eve

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
John Gage wrote: > Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? > This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular > expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future > reference. Uh, no, and no one has ever asked for that. There must be so

[GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-08 Thread John Gage
Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. John -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make c