Documentation as books

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2014-10-24 03:15, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Anybody who can tell anything about how it was done?
> 
> Confirmed by looking back at the archive, 11.04 was the last release
> that the team used DocBook for both Desktop and Server guides, meaning
> outputting a PDF of the Desktop guide was a pretty standard and
> trivial thing with DocBook (as Doug points out, we still do it for the
> Server Guide). During the Oneric (11.10) cycle the team switched over
> to Mallard.

Sounds like a plausible theory.

> I started digging into the html/Makefile to tease out what I'd need to
> do to generate an epub with yelp-build but style cleanup we have in
> that Makefile started to make me a bit scared to attempt it on a night
> I want to sleep :)

Can understand that. ;)

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