Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was" Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 01/04/2010 10:56 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
> Larry, et al,
>
> * I'm about to do a review of the Cygwin docs. I'd really like to
> do that from a single PDF file per doc (FAQs, User Guide, API
> Guide). How do I get from the SGML (or, XML, or Docbook) source
> files to a single PDF?
>
>  > Or, if that's documented somewhere, point me at it.

I'm going to have to leave this for the maintainers of Cygwin documentation to
answer since I don't know DocBook stuff.

> * Does the answer to the above question, answer the more general
> question of how to get from Docbook to a format of my choice,
> including?:
>
>  > PS/PDF?
>  > man nroff/troff/groff source?
>  > XHTML/CSS?
>
>  > Or, if that's documented somewhere, point me at it, please.

My basic understanding is that if you use DocBook, you can get from
one to the other.  But I expect that's an incomplete/oversimplified
statement.

> * If it's not documented, and you can give me even some vague
> pointers, I'd be happy to write it up, if you think anybody
> would be interested.

Wouldn't hurt in my opinion.  IIRC, the biggest issue in the past has
been to get DocBook working under Cygwin, so Linux has been a
requirement to get the documentation generated, as a result.  But
things may have changed here.

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