Rough start...

'D@7@k|N&' dataking at cox.net
Sun Aug 29 15:01:56 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 21:34, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 08:18, D at 7@k|N& wrote:
> > Oh, one more thing... Is 'make html' (or 'make pdf') the only way to
> > view your progress?  How do I need to tweak the Makefile so it will
> > apply to my document?
> 
> Yeah, pretty much. I do this once in a while since the "Validate"
> function in Emacs/psgml seems roughly worthless from where I'm sitting.
> I watch the output of xmlto (which is part of the "make" toolchain that
> runs) to see if my XML validates correctly.
> 
> Sometimes reading the HTML back in Mozilla is a nice way to make sure
> the document flows. It can scan differently without all the tags in the
> way. I'll do a new make every once in a while sometimes to feel like I'm
> making progress.
> 
> I built a cron script on my system to feed a nightly HTML build to my
> web server of all the documents on which I'm working.
> 
> -- 
> Paul W. Frields, RHCE

Cool.  I find that I need immediate feedback when working on something
like this.  So, I've been running 'make html' to be able to view the
document (as it progresses) in my browser.  Just didn't know if there
was a better (faster/easier) way.

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