ninja/doc/README.md
Evan Martin a6859ac8af improve docs generation, including PDF output
- Fix the manual build rules (missing the .xsl as an input).
- Add a README describing how the docs build works.
- Add rules that generate PDF, just 'cause we can.
2015-11-17 14:05:53 -08:00

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This directory contains the Ninja manual and support files used in building it. Here's a brief overview of how it works.

The source text, manual.asciidoc, is written in the AsciiDoc format. AsciiDoc can generate HTML but it doesn't look great; instead, we use AsciiDoc to generate the Docbook XML format and then provide our own Docbook XSL tweaks to produce HTML from that.

In theory using AsciiDoc and DocBook allows us to produce nice PDF documentation etc. In reality it's not clear anyone wants that, but the build rules are in place to generate it if you install dblatex.