Thanks for the information, booking in stylesheets is a very good idea. If I
can make the toolchain work on Fedora, that's sufficient, I can then fold
csound.pdf documentation into the Conder setup. Though I would prefer
Cygwin.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steven yi" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:5360] Re: Documentation


> Hi Michael,
>
> On Fedora Core 2, I have been able to build the Csound Reference Manual,
> though my stylesheets were a little off.  After asking the list about it
> a bit, I contacted Kevin who sent me a few files including the
> gdp-both.dsl style sheet he was using.  He also let me know the issues
> with licensing of the documentation, which there are some modifications
> I've been meaning to do to conform with that.
>
> For fedora core 2, I used the default toolchain as installed from
> RPM's.  The only issues I had were locating the gdp-both.dsl file that
> the ACRM used, which was on the Gnome Project's website.  As far as I
> can find, I don't have SGML_CATALOG_FILES defined.
>
>  From what I remember, the only things I had to change after a fresh
> checkout were the locations of gdp-both.dsl defined in the Makefile (the
> parts DSL_PRINT, DSL_HTML, DSL_INDEX).  I think John ffitch may have
> checked in changes recently for the Makefile that have those pointing to
> different locations than Kevin had, but it doesn't matter so much as
> it's pretty system-dependent.
>
> I have Kevin's style sheets and had been meaning to spend some time with
> the manual so that the stylesheet and other files could just be in CVS
> and have no outside dependencies besides a standard docbook chain.  I'm
> not sure if that's possible but I was going to take a look.
>
> I'll try to compile on cygwin tomorrow and report if I can get anywhere
> with that.
>
> steven
>
> gogins@pipeline.com wrote:
>
> >Has anyone recently succeeded in rebuilding the Kevin Conder docbook
> >documentation for Csound? In particular, has anyone done this on Windows
or
> >with Cygwin?
> >
> >If anyone has managed to do this in any way on ANY platform, please email
> >me the value of your SGML_CATALOG_FILES environment variable.
> >
> >I am trying to fold the new documentation in csound.pdf into the
"Canonical
> >Csound Reference Manual" (by Kevin Conder, previously named the
> >"Alternative Csound Reference Manual".
> >
> >I have the SGML/docbook/tex toolchain installed, but it's a nightmare to
> >configure.
> >
> >I would go the other direction if I could, and fold the Kevin Conder
manual
> >into csound.pdf, but that would seem to involve translating the sgml
> >sources back into LaTeX -- and I could find no program or utility that
does
> >this reliably.
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