[kde-doc-english] Making KDocTools independent of KArchive

[Luigi Toscano]

Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Diumenge, 29 de setembre de 2013, a les 12:14:49, David Faure va escriure:
>> On Monday 23 September 2013 20:23:13 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> So we don't have a man page anymore? Debian will be happy :D
>>>
>>> Also we're losing the i18n-zation side of the man page, which the current
>>> -- help does not have.
>>
>> What do non-kde projects do? Write a man page by hand and translate it by
>> hand? Or do they use .po files somehow?
> 
> I've no clue, I don't participate in any non-kde project that has translated 
> man pages.
> 
> It seems po4a-gettextize knows how to create a .pot file from a manpage file. 
> If anyone wants to give it a try to integrate into our l10n workflow...
> 
> Still you'd lose the hability to say convert the manpage to an html file or a 
> pdf like we have right now since it would not be a docbook anymore.

We also lose our custom entities.

On the other side, manpage generation does not require a final compression to
bz2 (which is used for the htmls generated for the documentation), so maybe it
could be possible to split something more? Just thinking aloud.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi