Richard Owlett posted on Wed, 4 Dec 2024 07:32:28 -0600 as excerpted:
>> The link for this, which (given you mentioned PDFs) you likely already
>> have, is https://docs.kde.org
>
> But that has no link to anything in docbook format. Do you have one?
I just realized I do, tho at a different link. See below.
But for the link above I had figured you'd do the web page (not the other
alternative, pdf) and save it directly.
> Exploring docbook may prompt ideas in my original target project.
I hadn't thought of it with the previous reply (I only thought of the
package archives and sources), but for the bare docbook files themselves
(for manual conversion), likely the most direct option is to browse the
git sources on invent.kde.org using your normal web browser and just
download the docbook files.
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/tree/master/doc?ref_type=heads
(That's for master. You can switch to your release branch if desired.)
Also, if Debian's kate/kwrite/... packages don't include the handbooks,
their source-packages very likely still include the docbook documentation
since it's shipped that way upstream. I'm not familiar enough with how
deb packages work to do detail, but did do quite a few builds from srpm
back in the day (ummm... two decades ago, but...).
Meanwhile... going in a rather different direction, now that I know you're
on Debian (one of the reasons the earlier reply was a bit general was
because I thought you might be using kate on MSWindows/AppleOS/Android or
similar and /really/ don't know much about how that works except that a
number of kde packages are available for them, but I was trying to keep
the reply general enough to hopefully apply there), are you using kde-
plasma or a different desktop environment?
Because... OK, so vision problems. Is it mainly zoom you need or more?
Because if it's mainly zoom, here, I use kde-plasma/kwin's zoom effect
rather heavily and thus have rather more experience with it than some of
the other topics where my knowledge is far more limited. It occurs to me
if zoom's what you need, it's a more general purpose solution that you can
use with various applications and thus may be able to avoid the struggle
of displaying everything in a web page, because kwin can zoom the entire
desktop (using configurable hotkeys as is usual with plasma) and that's
what I do here.
But no use trying to go in that direction if you're on a different desktop
or if zoom isn't really what you need anyway, so I figured I'd ask first
and see if it's at all useful for you, before getting further into a
configuration discussion, etc.
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