#2207: provide downloadable tar balls of html man pages
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Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Website | Version: unspecified
Keywords: html man pages download | Platform: Unspecified
Cpu: Unspecified |
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It would be great if next to the
[http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/manuals/ online consultation] of
html man pages, one could also download them as a tar balls.
#2207: provide downloadable tar balls of html man pages
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Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Website | Version: unspecified
Keywords: html man pages download | Platform: Unspecified
Cpu: Unspecified |
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#2207: provide downloadable tar balls of html man pages
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Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Website | Version: unspecified
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: html man pages download
Platform: Unspecified | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment(by wenzeslaus):
Replying to [comment:2 neteler]:
> Replying to [comment:1 neteler]:
> > Done for GRASS 7: http://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/manuals/
> >
> > Will asap add the other packages to the weekly cronjobs.
>
> Done (also 6.4 and 6.5). Closing.
#2207: provide downloadable tar balls of html man pages
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Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Website | Version: unspecified
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: html man pages download
Platform: Unspecified | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment(by hamish):
see also idea to make a searchable man page android app (can build on
other existing FOSS unix man page and perl doc apps), and/or using Calibre
to convert HTML -> free cross-platform eBook. Calibre needs a little bit
of guidance to get the chapters right, but for searchable reference manual
it is more important that the index works than the modules browse in
order. I tried a quick test-case with the Valgrind docs, without structure
guidance the chapter and section hierarchy was a big out of order mess,
but it turned out not to be a big deal since the all the internal links
worked and I wasn't reading it beginning to end like a story book.
I'm not sure how others work, but for me this is most useful when working
remotely or on a laptop; at my desk usually it's easier to have the docs
open side by side in a big monitor or on a second screen/workspace.
The programmer's manual would be good to eBook-ize or make into an android
app too. Note HTML is Calibre's preferred input markup language, and
luckily most of the hard work of standardizing the section h2,h3s and css
styles is already done.