[kde-doc-english] Question on producing html and pdf versions of app manual

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Tue Aug 2 11:45:09 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 02 August 2011 6:03:41 AM Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
> написане Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:49:49 +0300, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org>:
> 
> > On Monday 01 August 2011 5:08:11 PM Jack wrote:
> >> About a year ago, one of the KMyMoney developers opened a bug
> >> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245893) because the old automake
> >> based build system apparently had a feature to generate HTML and PDF
> >> versions of the manual, but the cmake version does not.  I know
> >> meinproc4 can produce HTML output suitable for use as an online manual,
> >> but I don't know of any easy way to create PDF or to create either as
> >> part of the cmake process.  I'd appreciate any hints on either task.
> >>
> >
> > if you pass -DKDE4_ENABLE_HTMLHANDBOOK=1 to cmake, then
> > you'll get a make target generated called "htmlhandbook".
> >
> > then you should be able to run 'make htmlhandbook' in the docs/foo  
> > subdirs.
> > For example, cd kdepim/build/doc/korganizer; make htmlhandbook
> > will generate the html for the KOrganizer handbook.
> >
> > something similar could be done for pdf output I suppose.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Regretfully there is no PDF option in KDE4Macros.cmake.
> 
I will ask the build system folks to make one, if possible.

What would be the meinproc4 command to make pdf output?


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