Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On l?r, 2010-06-12 at 09:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > > On l?r, 2010-06-12 at 11:18 +0200, John Gage wrote:
> > >> A one file html version would be a godsend.
> >
> > > I've committed a build target for that now. Use 'make postgres.html' in
> > > doc/src/sgml/.
> >
> > Huh, is that actually worth anything? How many browsers will open it
> > without crashing, or will navigate the page with decent performance
> > if they do manage to open it?
>
> Text output is generated by going through HTML. I haven't figured out
> the best way to do the second step yet. We use lynx for INSTALL and
> HISTORY, but the results for this big file aren't very clean.
>
> Browsers seem to handle the file OK, btw.
Well, I tried lynx and the output looked fine to me, so I applied the
attached patch to allow single-page text output. You can see the HTML
and text file results here:
http://momjian.us/expire/
The new rule name is postgres.txt. The file size are:
7,789,730 postgres.html
5,155,672 postgres.txt
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ None of us is going to be here forever. +
Index: doc/src/sgml/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.145
diff -c -c -r1.145 Makefile
*** doc/src/sgml/Makefile 12 Jun 2010 15:42:44 -0000 1.145
--- doc/src/sgml/Makefile 12 Jun 2010 15:57:31 -0000
***************
*** 108,113 ****
--- 108,117 ----
postgres.html: postgres.sgml $(ALLSGML) stylesheet.dsl
$(JADE.html.call) -V nochunks -V rootchunk -V '(define %root-filename% #f)' -V '(define use-output-dir #f)' -i
include-index$<
+ # single-page text
+ postgres.txt: postgres.html
+ $(LYNX) -force_html -dump -nolist -stdin $< > $@
+
HTML.index: postgres.sgml $(ALMOSTALLSGML) stylesheet.dsl
@$(MKDIR_P) html
$(JADE.html.call) -V html-index $<
