Thread: Postgres docs in .chm format --- is this possible?

Postgres docs in .chm format --- is this possible?

From
Alexey Borzov
Date:
Greetings!

  I've recently found an unofficial conversion of PostgreSQL docs to
.chm (compiled HTML help) format:
  http://home.balticom.lv/andryxa/postgre.chm

  This seems a very helpful thing, but a problem with an unofficial
conversion is that it can become out of sync with actual docs. So,
a question: is it possible to have an "official" .chm conversion of docs
available for download, as currently are .ps and .pdf?

--
Yours, Alexey V. Borzov, Webmaster of RDW.ru



Re: Postgres docs in .chm format --- is this possible?

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Alexey Borzov writes:

>   I've recently found an unofficial conversion of PostgreSQL docs to
> .chm (compiled HTML help) format:
>   http://home.balticom.lv/andryxa/postgre.chm
>
>   This seems a very helpful thing, but a problem with an unofficial
> conversion is that it can become out of sync with actual docs. So,
> a question: is it possible to have an "official" .chm conversion of docs
> available for download, as currently are .ps and .pdf?

The documentation doesn't change at random.  If the conversion was based
on the documentation set provided with an official release then it's just
as good as any other.

--
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


RE: Postgres docs in .chm format --- is this possible?

From
Mike Mascari
Date:
That sure looks nice, though. I've played around in the past with an
SGML tool chain of:

SGML->RTF->Custom Post Processor->WinHelp

but it never looked quite as good as the .CHM file below. Perhaps the
pgAdmin people should set up an automatic SGML->CHM conversion and
provide an option to ship the docs with pgAdmin. A searchable,
downloadable, bookmarkable HTML-based documentation set sure is nice.

Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com

-----Original Message-----
From:    Peter Eisentraut [SMTP:peter_e@gmx.net]
Sent:    Thursday, May 31, 2001 5:10 PM
To:    Alexey Borzov
Cc:    pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Postgres docs in .chm format --- is this
possible?

Alexey Borzov writes:

>   I've recently found an unofficial conversion of PostgreSQL docs
to
> .chm (compiled HTML help) format:
>   http://home.balticom.lv/andryxa/postgre.chm
>
>   This seems a very helpful thing, but a problem with an unofficial
> conversion is that it can become out of sync with actual docs. So,
> a question: is it possible to have an "official" .chm conversion of
docs
> available for download, as currently are .ps and .pdf?

The documentation doesn't change at random.  If the conversion was
based
on the documentation set provided with an official release then it's
just
as good as any other.

--
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net
  http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter