David King (Wednesday, 24. November 2010) > It appears that xsltproc is already installed in my Ubuntu. So, I > now want to generate the English html files for myself to make > sure I can - what do I type on the command line? There are two ways to work/start: 1) The standard way is using autotools (automake, autoconf, etc.); you should start with $ ./autogen.sh ALL_LINGUAS=en which does some checks and runs automake, autoconf and configure. If everything is ok you will then have a Makefile and can do everything using the "make" command, e.g. $ make help $ make html-en $ make html # only if you cofigured with 'ALL_LINGUAS=en' # otherwise all html's are built $ make validate-en # is it still valid DocBook? 2) IMHO the autotools are a) bloated and b) overkill for our project, so I created a Makefile that should "just work"; all you have to do is to type $ make -f Makefile.GNU ... LINGUAS=en or $ make -f Makefile.GNU ... # for targets ending with '-en' instead of "make ...". If some required program is not installed, this "make" will just fail... If you add "VERBOSE=2" to your 'make' command you will see which commands are executed by 'make'. > Then, if that works, I *think* I need to create a branch so that I > can safely work on the re-structure. What do I type on the command > line? Most important command: $ git help branch Creating a new branch is not really necessary, but it's a clean way, especially for major changes, and it's cheap (and easy): $ git branch name_of_your_new_branch You'll have to checkout ("git help checkout") that new brach, that is to "change to this new branch": $ git checkout name_of_your_new_branch You can also combine both steps: $ git checkout -b name_of_your_new_branch > By the way, did it occur to anyone that having a help system that > needs a programmer to change it rather limits the people who will > help to... programmers - whereas what you really need to write > help is authors ;). There's a huge barrier - still in front of me > - before I can even begin to edit. I don't need to understand the > inner workings - sure with enough effort I could, but what a waste > of my time! We used to have an INSTALL file, but it seems that it's gone. :-( Bye Ulf PS: Do you see the contradiction: > Ah, right, I can give you some examples... ;) [...] vs. > ... having a help system that needs a programmer ... ;-) -- Beten heißt den Himmel melken wollen. -- Karlheinz Deschner
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