Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
| The base manual (Master Document) is in a local markup.
|
| . A local program formats it into ascii and into PostScript.
| . Perl scripts handle the index and table of contents for
| ascii and PostScript.
| . ps2pdf turns the PostScript into PDF.
| . A Perl script converts the base into texinfo input.
| . Another Perl script converts the base into HTML,
| including the index.
|
| So far, I have not made the Master Document public,
| because few other people can process it. This means there
| is no proper documentation of the markup...
The way I see it, there are several ways to deal with this:
1) You could make the local markup version available to
everyone, to do as they please with. This would
probably be of very limited use.
2) You could let the person or group responsible for the
new version of the manual get access to the local markup
version, so that thay can figure out the format and
produce the alternate web version...
3) ... and/or they could translate your local markup into
something more universally understood, such as XML...
4) ... and/or they could provide you with a program to do the
above transformation so that you could generate an XML
version yourself.
Of course, these suggestions rest on the assumption that you
think a new version of the manual could be useful. If you
don't, I rest my case.
Personally, I would vote for 2 and possibly 4.
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Regards,
Stian Grytoyr
