I've been doing some manual writing with DocBook, under cygwin, to produce One Page HTML, Many Pages HTML, CHM and PDF.
I installed the following:
- The docbook stylesheets (xsl) repository.
- xmllint, to test if the xml is correct.
- xsltproc, to process the xml with the style cheets.
- Apache's fop, to produce PDF's.I make sure to add the installed folder to the PATH.
- Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop, to produce CHM's. I make sure to add the installed folder to the PATH.
Edit: In the below code I'm using more than the 2 files. If someone wants a cleaned up version of the scripts and the folder structure, please contact me: guscarreno (squiggly/at) googlemail (period/dot) com
I then use a configure.in:
AC_INIT(Makefile.in)
FOP=fop.sh
HHC=hhc
XSLTPROC=xsltproc
AC_ARG_WITH(fop, [ --with-fop Where to find Apache FOP],
[
if test "x$withval" != "xno"; then
FOP="$withval"
fi
]
)
AC_PATH_PROG(FOP, $FOP)
AC_ARG_WITH(hhc, [ --with-hhc Where to find Microsoft Help Compiler],
[
if test "x$withval" != "xno"; then
HHC="$withval"
fi
]
)
AC_PATH_PROG(HHC, $HHC)
AC_ARG_WITH(xsltproc, [ --with-xsltproc Where to find xsltproc],
[
if test "x$withval" != "xno"; then
XSLTPROC="$withval"
fi
]
)
AC_PATH_PROG(XSLTPROC, $XSLTPROC)
AC_SUBST(FOP)
AC_SUBST(HHC)
AC_SUBST(XSLTPROC)
HERE=`pwd`
AC_SUBST(HERE)
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)
cat > config.nice <<EOT
#!/bin/sh
./configure \
--with-fop='$FOP' \
--with-hhc='$HHC' \
--with-xsltproc='$XSLTPROC' \
EOT
chmod +x config.nice
and a Makefile.in:
FOP=@FOP@
HHC=@HHC@
XSLTPROC=@XSLTPROC@
HERE=@HERE@
# Subdirs that contain docs
DOCS=appendixes chapters reference
XML_CATALOG_FILES=./build/docbook-xsl-1.71.0/catalog.xml
export XML_CATALOG_FILES
all: entities.ent manual.xml html
clean:
@echo -e "\n=== Cleaning\n"
@-rm -f html/*.html html/HTML.manifest pdf/* chm/*.html chm/*.hhp chm/*.hhc chm/*.chm entities.ent .ent
@echo -e "Done.\n"
dist-clean:
@echo -e "\n=== Restoring defaults\n"
@-rm -rf .ent autom4te.cache config.* configure Makefile html/*.html html/HTML.manifest pdf/* chm/*.html chm/*.hhp chm/*.hhc chm/*.chm build/docbook-xsl-1.71.0
@echo -e "Done.\n"
entities.ent: ./build/mkentities.sh $(DOCS)
@echo -e "\n=== Creating entities\n"
@./build/mkentities.sh $(DOCS) > .ent
@if [ ! -f entities.ent ] || [ ! cmp entities.ent .ent ]; then mv .ent entities.ent ; fi
@echo -e "Done.\n"
# Build the docs in chm format
chm: chm/htmlhelp.hpp
@echo -e "\n=== Creating CHM\n"
@echo logo.png >> chm/htmlhelp.hhp
@echo arrow.gif >> chm/htmlhelp.hhp
@-cd chm && "$(HHC)" htmlhelp.hhp
@echo -e "Done.\n"
chm/htmlhelp.hpp: entities.ent build/docbook-xsl manual.xml build/chm.xsl
@echo -e "\n=== Creating input for CHM\n"
@"$(XSLTPROC)" --output ./chm/index.html ./build/chm.xsl manual.xml
# Build the docs in HTML format
html: html/index.html
html/index.html: entities.ent build/docbook-xsl manual.xml build/html.xsl
@echo -e "\n=== Creating HTML\n"
@"$(XSLTPROC)" --output ./html/index.html ./build/html.xsl manual.xml
@echo -e "Done.\n"
# Build the docs in PDF format
pdf: pdf/manual.fo
@echo -e "\n=== Creating PDF\n"
@"$(FOP)" ./pdf/manual.fo ./pdf/manual.pdf
@echo -e "Done.\n"
pdf/manual.fo: entities.ent build/docbook-xsl manual.xml build/pdf.xsl
@echo -e "\n=== Creating input for PDF\n"
@"$(XSLTPROC)" --output ./pdf/manual.fo ./build/pdf.xsl manual.xml
check: manual.xml
@echo -e "\n=== Checking correctness of manual\n"
@xmllint --valid --noout --postvalid manual.xml
@echo -e "Done.\n"
# need to touch the dir because the timestamp in the tarball
# is older than that of the tarball :)
build/docbook-xsl: build/docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.gz
@echo -e "\n=== Un-taring docbook-xsl\n"
@cd build && tar xzf docbook-xsl-1.71.0.tar.gz && touch docbook-xsl-1.71.0
to automate the production of the above mentioned file outputs.
I prefer to use a nix approach to the scripting just because the toolset is more easy to find and use, not to mention easier to chain.