IRC log for #brlcad on 20080209

00:12.56 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r30255 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/BRL-CAD.bib: More references.
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12:23.07 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30256 10/brlcad/trunk/src/ (adrt/Makefile.am other/tcl/Makefile.am): distcheck changes
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14:21.41 CIA-32 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30257 10/brlcad/trunk/src/util/Makefile.am: include rtwizard.bat in the dist
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15:10.53 brlcad ah, now that is the shizzle
15:11.36 brlcad a quick refcard written in docbook with images and multilingual po files ..
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15:53.32 starseeker brlcad: You mean that's first on the list?
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16:31.55 starseeker Good lord this docbook toolchain setup is odd
16:34.07 brlcad starseeker: hm?
16:34.21 starseeker I can't get even a basic pdf to print out
16:34.39 brlcad the refcard I was referring to was a diff project
16:34.45 starseeker Ah
16:34.56 starseeker Still, this toolchain is driving me nuts
16:35.08 brlcad they created a refcard that used db with imagery, diagrams, and had a multilingual backend
16:35.25 starseeker Nice
16:35.33 starseeker Is it online anywhere?
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16:47.15 starseeker It looks like setting up the dtd file location for building the docbook stuff cross-platform could be entertaining
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16:54.07 brlcad yeah, it is
16:54.09 brlcad http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/
16:55.32 brlcad those set of web pages, the various translations, diagrams, and the pdf are all stashed in a docbook data format with some metaformats for things like the images and a diagram (which actually doesn't render unfortuantely)
16:56.56 brlcad they use xslt instead of dsssl so the format processing is a bit different than what I'd originally had in mind
16:58.11 brlcad i'm rather highly doubtful I could easily create the mged cheat sheet using either xsl or dsssl, but it's an interesting approach
17:00.48 brlcad but hey, if xsl can be made to work easier, then so be it
17:18.40 brlcad starseeker: if I haven't shown it before, here's a project that manages their docs pretty comprehensively as docbook that are a really good example to follow
17:18.46 brlcad http://www.firebirdsql.org/
17:19.46 brlcad all their (extensive) docs go through their doc system, e.g. writing guide: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/docwritehowto.html
17:19.56 brlcad http://www.firebirdsql.org/?op=doc
17:20.26 brlcad they handle images, diagrams, translations, etc ..
17:21.07 brlcad iirc, they do everything through fop (java) but provide pretty much everything you need
17:21.34 brlcad might just work to follow them exactly at first and then diverge later as/if needed
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17:26.28 brlcad another good example are the gentoo and debian docs
17:30.06 archivist php and mysql are similar if not the same (I have written readers against the xml sources of php and mysql to feed my bot database)
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21:34.59 starseeker brlcad: Just curious - how come we don't turn on the optimize flag by default?
21:38.45 starseeker (I probably asked that before...)
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