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 Could it be that the build system has out-of-date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
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Remove new <para id="contrib-obsolete">.
- 244ab8c00c42 16.0 landed
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doc/PDF: Add page breaks for <sect1> in contrib appendix
- 30e9f2608adf 16.0 landed
-
doc: Add lists of modules trusted/obsolete
- a0137388cb64 16.0 landed
-
HTML docs: Add padding to table.simplelist for more readable output
- a7e584a7d68a 16.0 landed
-
Describe each contrib module in its SGML section title
- e86c8b728f3c 16.0 landed