Re: [docbook-apps] docbook 4.5 install. Woefully hard?

[Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com>]

I did find this package on the list the other day:
http://forgedp.fusesource.org/documentation/faq.html

Haven't tried it yet, but hoping it is also an easier solution. Most of 
the time I use oXygen on Windows, though.

Best regards,

--Scott

DeanNelson@aol.com wrote:
>  
>  
> In a message dated 8/3/2009 6:50:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
> davep@dpawson.co.uk writes:
> 
>     On 08/03/2009 02:11 PM, DeanNelson wrote:
>      > Dave
>      > I have stayed away from cygwin because I wanted to make sure that the
>      > users had something simple. I keep a simple doctools tree that
>     has all
>      > of the tools that I need (FOP, Saxon, XSLTPROC, etc) and the
>     users load
>      > it from Subversion.
>      > I support both Windows and Linux, since most of the content
>     generators
>      > are Windows based and I use both. I created identically named
>     scripts to
>      > run the Docbook generation on both Win32 and Linux, which keeps the
>      > documentation simpler.
> 
>     Neat. xxx.bat and xxx.sh?
> 
> Yes. For example:
>  
> makepdf  [docbook file] [stylesheet]
>  
> This only becomes a problem with users that have not used the DOS screen 
> in Windows. Unix folks use it just fine. Even the Windows folks have no 
> problems after they get to the DOS window.
> 
> 
> 
>      > Since most of the tools are Java based,
> 
>     I'm sure that would satisfy 80% of users.
> 
> The only tools that are NOT Java based are the XSLTPROC & XMLLINT but 
> have executables in both Windows and Linux.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      > the command calls are similar. I
>      > include XSLTPROC & XMLLINT for win32 in my distribution because
>     they are
>      > available on most Linux distros but not Windows.
>      > Your experience software developer is correct - it is a bit
>     confusing at
>      > first, but sloshing through Bob's book can clear up almost all issues
>      > and put him on the right path.
> 
>     It was the 7 hours he'd taken to google his way round that
>     he objected to! I'm not even sure he'd found Bobs write-up.
> 
> 
>      > I sometimes forget how much I struggled back when I developed the
>      > system, and I am a software developer ;-)
> 
> 
>     Any statement on availability Dean?
> 
> Yes, they could be made available.
> 
> 
>     Is it something you maintain for your users?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     regards
> 
>     -- 
>     Dave Pawson
>     XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
>     http://www.dpawson.co.uk
> 
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