1 Current requirements for building the docs :
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8 These are not included with RH72. They are in debian. GDE has good rpms.
10 To build pdf's from xslt stuff, you need xmltex and (on redhat)
11 passivetex. They are not known to have been built on either redhat or
14 Wingo's new comments on the doc building :
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16 * Well he should add them soon here since he overhauled it. And did a good
19 Thomas's new comments on the doc building :
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21 * originally the manual was written with DocBook 3.0 in mind, which
22 supported the graphic tag. That is now deprecated, so I changed it to
23 the new mediaobject tag set.
25 * eps files in images/ should be generated from the makefile. You need to
26 have fig2dev installed for that.
28 Ensonic's comments on the doc build system :
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30 In case you like to share files between the manual and the pwg - it's
32 Before anything is done, the build-system copies all xml files into the build
33 subdir and this breaks including shared docs via entities.
35 The examples should be updated in the xml. We run a perlscript in
36 tests/examples/manual that extracts them.
38 Wtay's original comments :
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43 db2html gstreamer-manual
45 (On debian, db2html is in the cygnus-stylesheets package)
47 You will need the png support for docbook (see GNOME documentation project)
49 convert the fig images to png with:
51 fig2dev -L png -s 16 fig/<input file>.fig images/<input file>.png
53 Put a link in the gstreamer-manual directory with
55 ln -s ../images gstreamer-manual/images
57 point your browser to gstreamer-manual/gstreamer.html
59 Fix typing errors and correct bad english.
60 Let me know about the stuff that needs some more explanation.
61 Let me know about the structure of the document.