Commit 3e3bce2b authored by Davis King's avatar Davis King

Added a little README file that gives a rough explanation of what is

going on in the docs folder.

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This "package" is just a copy of the stuff I use to generate the documentation
for the dlib library. It contains a copy of the XSLT and XML I use to
generate the HTML documentation.
The current version of these files can be obtained from the dlib subversion
repository at: https://dclib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dclib/trunk/docs
======================== Overview ========================
I write all my documentation in XML files. If you look through the files in
the docs folder you will see each of them. There is also a stylesheet.xsl
file which contains all the XSLT I wrote to transform XML files into HTML.
Anyway, I use that stylesheet to generate the dlib documentation from those
XML files.
There is also a stylesheet inside the docs/chm folder (htmlhelp_stylesheet.xsl)
that knows how to look at the XML files and generate the table of contents
files needed by the htmlhelp tool (the thing that makes chm help files).
======================== Installing the required tools ========================
To begin with, the XML and XSLT is usable on any operating system, however,
all the scripts I have in the docs folder that automate everything are bash
shell scripts. I also use stuff like wine and other Linux tools and I have
only ever tested any of this in Debian. So if you want to use all the scripts
then you should probably run this stuff in Linux. But if not you can probably
hack something together :)
There are four scripts in the docs folder.
- testenv: This script tests your environment for all the needed utilities.
Run it and it should tell you what else you need to install.
Note that the htmlify utility is something I wrote and is in
the htmlify subfolder. You should build and install it.
(go into that folder, make a subfolder called build, then cd
into build and say: "cmake ..; make; sudo make install".
You will need to install cmake if you don't have it already)
- makedocs: This remakes all the HTML documentation by pulling files out
of the dlib repository. If you want to use this stuff for your
own projects you will need to edit this file a bit.
Note that this script puts its output in the docs/web and
docs/chm/docs folders. I use the chm folder for off-line
documentation while the web folder contains what goes onto
dclib.sourceforge.net. Both sets of HTML are generated from
the same XML files and are mostly the same. You will see
<chm></chm> and <web></web> tags inside the XML though in
cases where the two differ.
- makesnapshot and makerel: These run makedocs as well as create tar and
zip files of the project. They also run htmlhelp in wine to
generate the chm help files. Note that you will need to run
docs/chm/htmlhelp/setup_htmlhelp.sh before it will work in wine.
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