Re: Manual in the wiki

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@gmx.net>]

On 25.11.2004 02:21, Dave Fancella wrote:
> I've been considering moving the website into Mambo, actually.  Mambo has a 
> plugin that lets you wrap pages, and I could write a simple script to convert 
> man pages to html and wrap it.  That would make it possible for you to just 
> upload the new man pages over the old ones--not exactly an automated update.  

Well, I can do that already.

> Now that I think about it, I could probably write up a cronjob that retrieves 
> Crimson source from CVS, makes the man pages, and then posts them.  Or even 
> just get the raw xml for the man pages and transform them.  (It's not as 
> complicated as it sounds)  Just haven't had time to think about it much, let 
> alone talk about it, and you know me, when something is thought it's as good 
> as said.

You know that 'make html' in the docs directory creates the HTML version
of the man pages, right? No need to cook up custom XSL scripts.

Jens