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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: A new strategy for internals documentation
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqne9ar5.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5202A6D6.8090908@earthlink.net>

>>>>> Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>:

>>> *** Doxygen

>>> As a second step, we should adopt Doxygen for the sources, and use it
>>> to generate material for a new area of the website, which will be the
>>> detailed documentation of GDB internals.

>> AFAIK, Doxygen cannot generate an Info manual, only HTML.  If so, this
>> would be a serious downside that you don't mention.

> Hmm, I'm perhaps prejudiced since I haven't looked at any info file in
> probably a decade.  Are many people using them still?

Doxygen can generate output in Docbook XML.  A quick google found me
this tool that can convert Docbook to texinfo:
 http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/

How well that works I have no idea.

The Docbook output can be converted to a printable manual, and so can
Doxygen's LaTeX output.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-21 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-06 22:26 Stan Shebs
2013-08-07  4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-07 19:58   ` Stan Shebs
2013-08-08 17:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-08 21:08       ` Doug Evans
2013-08-08 21:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-08 23:03           ` Stan Shebs
2013-08-09  8:08             ` John Gilmore
2013-08-09  9:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-09  9:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-09 23:04               ` Stan Shebs
2013-08-09  9:53             ` Mark Kettenis
2013-08-09 23:28               ` Stan Shebs
2013-08-08 23:04           ` Doug Evans
2013-08-09  9:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-10  1:13             ` Yao Qi
2013-08-21 18:09     ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2013-08-21 20:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-22 18:29         ` Steinar Bang
2013-08-08  3:45   ` Yao Qi
2013-08-08 17:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-09  1:30       ` John Gilmore
2013-08-09  9:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-09 18:16           ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-09 18:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-09 22:31         ` Stan Shebs
2013-08-09 23:32           ` Matt Rice
2013-08-10  2:24           ` John Gilmore
2013-08-08 20:43   ` Tom Tromey
2013-08-08 20:57   ` Doug Evans
2013-08-08 20:41 ` Tom Tromey

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