On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 17:05, Alan Cox wrote: > Has anyone come across any good tools to manage a "bookshelf" of online > documentation and books in general. > > Thinking about the big documents relevant to Fedora and credibly > maintained (ie not download the howto's) I rapidly got past 20 good > free/shippable documents. The trouble is they are in multiple formats > even if they could all be output as PDF. > > - GNU manuals like the Emacs manual are generally texinfo but > very comprehensive > - Other online books are docbook (3,4,sgml and xml) > - Some stuff is in OpenOffice > - One or two are in weird "see we followed the license" xml > but rescuable > > A properly organised bookshelf seems an ideal thing to have, I'm just > wondering about tools > I once made an attempt at an nautilus-view that resembles the applications: or fonts: uri in that it displays categories of documentation as folders. The docs themselves would be installed similarly to install-info into the right category and managed in an xml file. Clicking on a document icon would then automatically display it with the right viewer. -- Gérard Milmeister Tannenrauchstrasse 35 8038 Zürich gemi@xxxxxxxxxx
