Re: How to build new html help on mac?

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

2011/2/27 Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> On 27.02.2011 11:33, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> 2011/2/26 Hans-Bernhard Bröker<HBB...@t-...>:
>
>>> doc2html.c is similar enough to the existing doc2{something}.c programs
>>> we
>>> already have.  It should build on MacOS, too.
>
>> I have tried, but I don't manage to build it. The best I can do is the
>> following (inside docs/Makefile):
>>
>> doc2html: doc2html.o termdoc.o xref.o
>>   $(LINK) doc2html.o termdoc.o $(LIBS)
>
> Compare this with the compilation rule for doc2html in config/makefile.mgw.
>  You're missing modules version and xref in the link.

I added xref.o now, but I'm missing version.o and I have no idea how
to create a rule for that one.

>>> Why not just use makeinfo on the texinfo rendition of gnuplot.doc?
>>> There's a
>>> ready-made target in docs/Makefile.in for that, already.  Just drop the
>>> --no-split and it'll generate one file per node just fine.
>
>> And what if I want figures as well
>
> Then you're probably in for a rough ride.    With a little coercion, it
> should be possible to convince doc2texi to keep HTML fragments in the
> output, enclosed in @ifhtml for makeinfo, so they end up in the generated
> html.

... or write my own script (substitute doc2texi.el) to create html
files out of gnuplot.doc.

I wanted to build from the existing chm effort, but it seems that it
will be easier to start from scratch.

Thank you,
    Mojca