Fedora Documentation

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Mon Jun 7 15:46:12 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 17:05, Alan Cox wrote:
> Has anyone come across any good tools to manage a "bookshelf" of online
> documentation and books in general.
> 
> Thinking about the big documents relevant to Fedora and credibly 
> maintained (ie not download the howto's) I rapidly got past 20 good
> free/shippable documents. The trouble is they are in multiple formats
> even if they could all be output as PDF.
> 
> -	GNU manuals like the Emacs manual are generally texinfo but
> 	very comprehensive
> -	Other online books are docbook (3,4,sgml and xml)
> -	Some stuff is in OpenOffice
> -	One or two are in weird "see we followed the license" xml
> 	but rescuable
> 
> A properly organised bookshelf seems an ideal thing to have, I'm just
> wondering about tools
> 
I once made an attempt at an nautilus-view that resembles the
applications: or fonts: uri in that it displays categories of
documentation as folders. The docs themselves would be installed
similarly to install-info into the right category and managed in an xml
file. Clicking on a document icon would then automatically display it
with the right viewer.
-- 
Gérard Milmeister
Tannenrauchstrasse 35
8038 Zürich
gemi at bluewin.ch





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