Re: Documentation

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation
Date: 2010-09-24 09:16:08
Message-ID: 4C9C6C58.4080706@lelarge.info
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Le 24/09/2010 10:39, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>> Documentation for pgAdmin is really weak right now. Just to take an
>> example, I don't know where a plugin file is described.
>>
>> The real question is how we do this. Right now, the documentation is a
>> set of HTML files. Which is fine for some people and not for others.
>> Kind of hard to get a consistent style. Kind of hard to get a good PDF
>> and CHM file out of it. Not sure we really need these formats, I'm sure
>> we want a consistent style.
>>
>> The only way to get all these options, AFAICT, is to use Docbook. SGML
>> or XML. I have no problem working with Docbook, but I'm not sure
>> everyone feels the same. I really prefer XML because of the toolset we
>> can use (which seems, at least to me, in much better shape than the SGML
>> one).
>>
>> Anyone has better ideas?
>
> Yeah, I was looking at this the other day, but ran out of time.
> Looking at using Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/).
>

Seems interesting. Just at the same time, we (Dalibo) get rid of our
documents in ReST format, so I'll still have to work with it for pgadmin :-/

Anyway, I need to test it a bit before going further on this.

> I really don't want to use SGML or XML.
>

I supposed so :)

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Guillaume
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