Kate/KWrite/KatePart handbooks as downloadable HTML files?

[Richard Owlett]

Apologies for top posting:
1. My environment
    Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 and SeaMonkey 2.53.19
2. My goal
    Local copy of Kate manuals in HTML format as I want ability to have
    multiple sections immediately available and PDF is unwieldy when
    zoomed.
3. Immediate solution
    In another forum, when saying that I wanted local copy of
    https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html I was pointed to
    wget. I now have a useful local copy. [was also pointed to httrack,
    but I have an undiagnosed local environment problem]
4. For PDF of Kate relate tools see links under  https://docs.kde.org .

On 12/5/24 4:53 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Richard Owlett posted on Wed, 4 Dec 2024 07:32:28 -0600 as excerpted:
> 
>>> The link for this, which (given you mentioned PDFs) you likely already
>>> have, is https://docs.kde.org
>>
>> But that has no link to anything in docbook format. Do you have one?
> 
> I just realized I do, tho at a different link.  See below.
> 
> But for the link above I had figured you'd do the web page (not the other
> alternative, pdf) and save it directly.
> 
>> Exploring docbook may prompt ideas in my original target project.
> 
> I hadn't thought of it with the previous reply (I only thought of the
> package archives and sources), but for the bare docbook files themselves
> (for manual conversion), likely the most direct option is to browse the
> git sources on invent.kde.org using your normal web browser and just
> download the docbook files.
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/tree/master/doc?ref_type=heads
> 
> (That's for master.  You can switch to your release branch if desired.)
> 
> Also, if Debian's kate/kwrite/... packages don't include the handbooks,
> their source-packages very likely still include the docbook documentation
> since it's shipped that way upstream.  I'm not familiar enough with how
> deb packages work to do detail, but did do quite a few builds from srpm
> back in the day (ummm... two decades ago, but...).
> 
> 
> Meanwhile... going in a rather different direction, now that I know you're
> on Debian (one of the reasons the earlier reply was a bit general was
> because I thought you might be using kate on MSWindows/AppleOS/Android or
> similar and /really/ don't know much about how that works except that a
> number of kde packages are available for them, but I was trying to keep
> the reply general enough to hopefully apply there), are you using kde-
> plasma or a different desktop environment?
> 
> Because...  OK, so vision problems.  Is it mainly zoom you need or more?
> Because if it's mainly zoom, here, I use kde-plasma/kwin's zoom effect
> rather heavily and thus have rather more experience with it than some of
> the other topics where my knowledge is far more limited.  It occurs to me
> if zoom's what you need, it's a more general purpose solution that you can
> use with various applications and thus may be able to avoid the struggle
> of displaying everything in a web page, because kwin can zoom the entire
> desktop (using configurable hotkeys as is usual with plasma) and that's
> what I do here.
> 
> But no use trying to go in that direction if you're on a different desktop
> or if zoom isn't really what you need anyway, so I figured I'd ask first
> and see if it's at all useful for you, before getting further into a
> configuration discussion, etc.
>