Is informaltable OK in documentation

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 16, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:18:10 +1100
>> From: Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
>> To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> Cc: "gnucash-devel at gnucash.org" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: Is informaltable OK in documentation
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>>> On 12 Oct 2015, at 1:38 am, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 11, 2015, at 4:34 AM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Geert,
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know how to check how it looks in pdf/mobi/epub.
>>>> Do the pdf/mobi/epub versions get built by the daily build?
>>>> Perhaps after it is committed, I could see it in the daily build, and 
>>>> change it
>> again if it is not acceptable?
>>> 
>>> Yes, they?re all built in the nightly, though that?s the master branch 
>>> rather
>> than maint so your changes would have to be merged first. Mechtilde
>> Stehmann has a bunch of PRs up right now so I?ll probably do a merge this
>> evening.
>>> 
>>> Or you could build the ebooks locally. See
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Release_Process#Other_docu
>> mentation_formats for instructions.
>>> 
>>> Calibre, which you?ll need to make the mobi, will also serve to display 
>>> the
>> mobi and epub.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Can you please tell me what versions of fop and Calibre are used to build 
> GnuCash pdf + ePub documentation?
> 
> (I'd sooner not install software without using packaging system but Ubuntu 
> 12.04 fop is only 1.0.dfsg2-6)

Chris,

Whatever is in your distro is probably fine. IIRC we were targeting RHEL 6 as the “elder system” when we set it up. I know I’ve successfully built the docs on F16 and Debian Wheezy.

Regards,
John Ralls