[oe] more observations on the usermanual dir and docbook translation

[Cliff Brake]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  since i've done a fair bit of docbook processing, i took a quick
> look at the usermanual dir, and here's another observation from the
> README, where it reads:
>
>  For html and xhtml you need xsltproc installed.
>  For the other you need docbook-utils installed.
>
> at least under fedora, that's not all -- you'll need the
> docbook-utils-pdf package as well:
>
> $ rpm -ql docbook-utils-pdf
> /usr/bin/db2dvi
> /usr/bin/db2pdf
> /usr/bin/db2ps
> /usr/bin/docbook2dvi
> /usr/bin/docbook2pdf
> /usr/bin/docbook2ps
> /usr/share/man/man1/db2pdf.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/docbook2dvi.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/docbook2pdf.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/docbook2ps.1.gz
> $
>
>  not sure what the situation is under other distros.  also, the last
> time i looked, most output formats can now be generated with no
> reference to SGML or DSSSL or jade, but i'd have to go back and verify
> that.  (pdf output can be generated using fop.)
>
>  if no one else wants to handle this, i can start putting together
> patches to bring that directory up to date as long as i can do it in
> bite-size pieces.

If you want to send patches, and I'll try to test and make sure they
get committed.

Thanks,
Cliff