[Kst] Manpage generation

[George Staikos]

On Monday 27 December 2004 14:09, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> I've played around a little bit with generating manpages from the DocBook
> source. It turned out to be easier than I expected. I've attached the
> manpage I generated from the 'Command Line' section - to take a look, drop
> it in /some/path/man1 and then "man -M /some/path kst"
>
> Now for the boring technical details:
> I grabbed the full DocBook XSL stylesheets, which have a stylesheet for the
> generation of manpages. With a little twiddling of the DocBook markup, I
> got the attached manpage as output.
>
> Now, the issue is this: ideally, the manpage would be generated at compile
> time, in the same way that the HTML is currently generated. The problem is
> that the HTML-generating bit of the stylesheets is distributed with KDE,
> but the manpage part isn't. I'll take a look at whether it's feasible to
> include the manpage stylesheets with KDE, but for now, I'd suggest we just
> regenerate the manpage manually before each release.
>
> Thoughts, comments, questions?

  It looks great.  I'm OK with regenerating with each release.  However we 
could also consider checking in the missing files into our own tree, if 
that's feasible.  You make the call.  If you want to regenerate manually for 
each release, please add instructions to devel-docs/RELEASE


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