On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:20:23PM +1000, Roman Joost wrote: > Dear Marco, > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:18:14AM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: > > Since I want to understand a bit more about the gimp build sistem > > I am trying to do the things by hand. > > > > I do not know automake/autotool so I do not really know how html, for > > instance, files are created. > > > > I copied all xml dir outside gimp tree dir and tried to build html by > > hand and failed miserably. > > > > I do not know docbook-xml either and I now know I was a bit "naive" > > thinking that a mere > > > > docbook2html it/gimp.xml > > > > will suffice. > > > > Can anyone help me understand? What I am missing? > It's just a matter of tooling. I'm not sure what the outcome of your > docbook2html attempt was, but I assume it was negative. yes because it does not include anything > We chose to split up our manual into separate files according to the > help ID GIMP uses. Each file is tied into the manual with include > statements (xi:includes) to make up the book. yes I knew this, the question is: why the command do not recognize the include command? > Furthermore, translations are separated into separate files. You'll need > to basically compile a translated version of the manual in order to > generate a translated HTML version out of it. yes, this too, but I want to make a step at a time... and recreate a GIMP build script from scratch just to understand better how the things works, without all that automake/autoconf confusing (for me) matter... > Potentially your tool will work. Look for --xinclude parameters in order > to build the manual. You'll have to find a way though, to create new > *translated* docbook files if you want anything else than English. there are no --xinclude parameters in docbook2html command. I am not even sure if it is really this the command that gimp makefiles trigger. Sorry I am not able to "read" make/automake scripts and this is my first problem... > Feel free to ask more questions if you want. I do not want to boring you with trivial questions but I do not know whom to ask about ... Many thanks. -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
