[Skiboot] [RFC] Doc: Add support to build OpenPOWER Foundation style documentation from RST
Stewart Smith
stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 22 10:51:11 AEST 2017
Jeffrey Scheel <scheel at us.ibm.com> writes:
> I've looked at this more closely and it appears that the deltas in code
> have exposed some of the original "fragility" I found in the conversion
> tools. As such, I've decided to explore and alternative solution. My
> current thinking is either to find a way to convert the skibook.tex file
> to docbook as a self-contained entity or generate the "singlehtml" file
> and use it. Either of these routes would eliminate the challenges I've
> seen in file structure and links.
>
> Initial look at using pandoc to convert .tex to .xml reveals a gap in link
> handling. This could be a configuration problem, but I've not found a
> solution yet. Additionally, some of the tables were not handled well.
>
> A quick use of herold to convert html to docbook, seems to have generated
> better docbook. This is the route I will continue to explore next week.
>
> As such, no further work should be done on the patch. Thanks for the
> help,
Hrm... maybe a better approach would be to have a style for Sphinx that
produces OpenPOWER Foundation stylized documentation?
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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
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