Re: [docbook-apps] processing modular docbook

[Stefan Kost <ensonic@hora-obscura.de>]

hi Tim,
Am 06.04.2010 21:26, schrieb Tim Arnold:
> Hi,
> I have a document that when printed is about 8000 pages. Because of the time it takes to process, I'd like to be able to process each chapter separately, but the more I read, the more I doubt the possibility.
> 
> My guess is that if I decide to try it, I'll have to set the numbering for chapters/tables/examples/figures in each chapter and set up a granular olink database to handle the cross-refs. And  create the book-level toc, index, any HTMLHelp files by some other means.
> 
> I haven't yet tried processing this particular document, but a 3,000 page doc takes about 2 hours on  my FreeBSD machine. The processing uses only one of its cpus of course, and neither memory or diskspace is a limitation--the processing seems to be cpu-bound only.
> 
> Any advice ?
> 
> thanks,
> --Tim Arnold
> 

one thing that helped me to save a lot of time in bigger api doc project in
gtk-doc is to override the l10n templates in my customization layer (I could do
it as the docs are only in one language (english)).

Stefan