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Re: HTML documentation - one file per function

by Ben Abbott :: Rate this Message:

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On May 5, 2008, at 10:05 PM, John Swensen wrote:

>
> On May 3, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
>> lør, 03 05 2008 kl. 11:54 -0400, skrev John Swensen:
>>> Is there a way to process the docstrings so as to create one file  
>>> per
>>> function?  I have started work on OctaveDE again and want to make a
>>> help browser.  I can simply use the existing HTML documentation, but
>>> would prefer to have it in the format of one HTML file per function.
>>> I would then try to work in cross referencing and the like.  Has
>>> someone already done this before?
>>
>> You mean like the Function Reference at the Octave-Forge web site,
>> http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html ?
>>
>> Søren
>>
> As a follow-on question, who is the wizard who wrote the code to  
> parse all the DOCSTRINGS for Octave and Octave-forge into this HTML  
> format?  Do you know if there is way to convert the texinfo stuff to  
> docbook?  This would make the creation of the help browser with  
> search capabilities infinitely easier.
>
> John

I have no experience in this, but doesn't makeinfo do that?

http://linux.die.net/man/1/makeinfo

makeinfo --docbook foo.texi

Ben


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