Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences

Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>

From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com>
To: w^3 <pgsql-www@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, "Gregory Stark (as CFM)" <stark.cfm@gmail.com>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Date: 2023-03-23T03:23:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

I rebuilt the HEAD (master) html with:

  make STYLE=website html

and what I see locally is still different from
what is on postgresql.org. 

So the build system does indeed seem to be generating
"different html" that looks un-good compared to what
Alvaro and I are seeing when we build locally.


On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:20:38 -0500
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com> wrote:

> There seems to be a problem with the html generated
> for the public-facing Postgresql docs.
> 
> I'm looking at the contrib page in the devel docs,
> on the pg website:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/contrib.html
> 
> The simplelist holding the list of trusted extensions,
> in doc/src/sgml/contrib.sgml, is inside the paragraph.
> 
> But when I look at the delivered html, I see the table
> outside of the paragraph.  And the vertical spacing
> looks poor as a result.
> 
> Alvaro moved the simplelist into the paragraph to
> fix just this problem.
> 
> Building HEAD (of master) on my computer (Debian 11.6)
> what I see is the generation of two paragraphs,
> one with the leading text and a second that contains
> the simplelist table.  (Er, why 2 paragraphs instead
> of just one paragraph with both text and table in
> it I can't say.)
> 
> The html built on my computer has vertical spacing
> that looks good.
> 
> Could it be that the build system has out-of-date
> docbook xslt?  In any case, it looks like what's
> produced for the world to see is different from what
> Alvaro and I are seeing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl <kop@karlpinc.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
> 
> P.S.  I don't know what html Alvero is generating,
> but his looks good and what's on postgresql.org does
> not look good.  So I assume that he's getting something
> different from what the public sees now.


Regards,

Karl <kop@karlpinc.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein



Commits

  1. Remove new <para id="contrib-obsolete">.

  2. doc/PDF: Add page breaks for <sect1> in contrib appendix

  3. doc: Add lists of modules trusted/obsolete

  4. HTML docs: Add padding to table.simplelist for more readable output

  5. Describe each contrib module in its SGML section title