Re: PostgreSQL docs in ePub format

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Edward Hooper <dokhebi(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL docs in ePub format
Date: 2013-02-14 04:15:30
Message-ID: 1360815330.20348.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 16:59 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/9/13 2:13 PM, Edward Hooper wrote:
> > I want to make an attempt to take the DocBook/SGML text that comes with
> > PostgreSQL and produce an ePub file. However, I have no experience with
> > this. I would like to get together with other like minded PostgreSQL
> > users and produce something useful.
>
> Do this:
>
> cd doc/src/sgml/
> make postgres.xml
> xsltproc http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/docbook.xsl postgres.xml
> echo 'application/epub+zip' > mimetype
> zip -r postgres.epub META-INF OEBPS mimetype

There is actually a wrapper program dbtoepub shipped with the stylesheet
distribution, which hides some of these details.

I have committed a make target (make epub) to do this (using dbtoepub)
for further investigation.

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