[DocBook-apps] Would it be possible to put the HTML documentation for the Docbook DSSSL stylesheets on docbook.org?

[Norm Tovey-Walsh]

"T. Kurt Bond via DocBook-apps" <docbook-apps at lists.docbook.org> writes:
> Anyway, I was looking at the NCURSES HOWTO again this evening, and wanted to build it again, but in a different way so I could put the current version on my website, and had no idea how I needed to change command line options to do that.

I’ve put the documentation online, but it’s also available in the docbook-dsssl-doc package at least on Debian-derived systems.

> I found the github repo, which I cloned to try to build a local copy of the documentation myself, but dsssl/docsrc/Makefile uses the following: DSL2MAN=../../buildtools/dsl2man JADE=../../buildtools/runjade but those tools aren't in the repository. Do you happen to have a copy of them, or can you tell me what they did?

I spent an hour or so trying to get the build working again, which required finding some of those things and making them run. Something goes wrong in the construction of the gentext files and I can’t immediately see what. It’s been so long since the build was run that I think one of the Makefiles doesn’t work correctly anymore.

> I think that it would be useful if some information about the stylesheets could be found on docbook.org, like a link to the github repo and a built version of the documentation.

That’s fair. I’ll commit my attempts to get the build working again.
If you attempt and succeed in getting it to actually work, please do let me know.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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