http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info/index.php/ fr Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:08:31 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info/index.php/post/2006/04/29/501-postgresql-manual-in-pdf urn:md5:f5724c20875b53675ba299d123520e84 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:08:24 +0000 Guillaume Lelarge PlanetPostgreSQL docbookpdfpostgresqlsgml <p>We have three major releases of the PostgreSQL manual in french&nbsp;: <a href="http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/7.4/" hreflang="fr">7.4</a>, <a href="http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/8.0/" hreflang="fr">8.0</a> and <a href="http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/8.1/" hreflang="fr">8.1</a>. They are all written in SGML Docbook. We use openjade to convert thems in HTML files, and htmldoc to convert the big HTML file in PDF.</p> <p>Three weeks ago, friends start talking about migrating to XML Docbook. They mostly did it. I just had some mistakes and a few tags to fix. This done, we used <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/" hreflang="en">LFS</a> makefile and XSLT files to build the HTML manual. It worked great. But then I told to myself that I should look into building a better PDF manual. htmldoc did a great job with the HTML file we provide but the result was kind of ugly. So I started working on it&nbsp;: fixing some issues in the XML files, adding icons, updating the XSL filters, upgrading FOP.</p> <p>It took me two weeks to create this <a href="http://docs.postgresqlfr.org/pgsql-8.1.3-fr/pg813.pdf" hreflang="fr">PDF manual</a> but I'm very proud of it.</p> http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info/index.php/post/2006/04/29/501-postgresql-manual-in-pdf#comment-form http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info/index.php/post/2006/04/29/501-postgresql-manual-in-pdf#comment-form http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info/index.php/feed/atom/comments/495