Re: Announcing omfgen 0.0

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:28:48PM -0600, Kevin Breit wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 11:15, Mark Levitt wrote:
> > OK, I know I've come to the party late, but can someone explain what omfgen
> > is for?  :)
> 
> Ya know in Nautilus, how there is the Help tab?  That tree is generated
> using OMF files with Scrollkeeper.  It's a very nifty set of scripts and
> stuff like that.  I like it a lot.  The problem?  VERY few people know
> how to use it well.  That is why there aren't many applications that are
> sorted in the tree.
> 
> I realized this was a large problem and decided to write omfgen.  omfgen
> will take a couple of command line arguments, and output your .omf file,
> Makefile.am, and break them up into directories (only available to me at
> this point in time, need a new release).  This way, a writer doesn't
> really need to know much about Makefiles or OMF to get their stuff in
> the tree.

You are also welcome to look at db2omf, in the LDP cvs. It writes an
omf file from a DocBook file. I don't know how much that overlaps with
your work. Apparently you have Gnome-specific knowledge built into
omfgen. But anyway, fwiw.

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