discuss: ldptool complete: was [1. automation of source to output publication]
Subject:
ldptool complete: was [1. automation of source to output
publication]
From:
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.####
Date:
14 Mar 2016 19:25:35 +0000
Message-Id: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1603141053510.12423@znpeba.jbaqresebt.arg>
Greetings TLDP,
I am happy to report success. I am releasing a tested [0], working
utility called 'ldptool' furnished as part of python-tldp-0.5.5,
which can process all of TLDP's source documents [1] [2] and
generate chunked and single-page HTML, PDF and textual outputs for
each.
Source document formats supported are:
* Linuxdoc # 226 documents in collection
* AsciiDoc # 0 documents in collection
* DocBook XML 4.x # 129 documents in collection
* DocBook 5.x # 1 document in collection
* DocBook SGML 4.x # 66 documents in collection
* DocBook SGML 3.x # 80 supported, but no longer accepted
The ldptool does not yet produce an ePub output format. I will
write separately about that.
If anybody is interested in code review, ad-hoc testing or pointing
out my documentation gaps (sorry, no manpage yet, though there is a
README.rst and basic --help).
In short, I am ready to roll this out,
-Martin
[0] The code coverage module reports 93% coverage when running both
the integration tests and the unit tests. In addition, I have
repeatedly processed all of our documents into the supported
outputs, a process which takes only 45-50m.
[1] The HOWTO-INDEX, which was a generated document, does not
validate. This is part of the metadata problem. I plan to
spend some time with Greg Ferguson's code and see what can be
done here. The HOWTO-INDEX is pretty useful, so it would be
good to be able to generate it again, even if the tools are
different.
[2] The PHP-Nuke-HOWTO uses an array of parameter entities to
control the image choice at output production time. On
OpenSUSE, I can build the document fine. On Debian, it still
has fits. This is a bug, and I will attend to this, but of
the 503 documents, this is the only unsolved processing item.
--
Martin A. Brown
http://linux-ip.net/
