From:	Hannes Magnusson	Date:	Thu Oct  2 05:07:02 2008
Subject:	Re: CHM manuals

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 23:52, Álvaro G. Vicario <alvaro@demogracia.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/26 Richard Quadling <rquadling@googlemail.com>:
>>> $ cd /path/to/your/phpdoc/checkout
>>> $ php configure.php
>>> $ phd -f xhtml -t chmsource -d .manual.xml
>>> # Microsoft magic here.. :)
> [...]
>> The MS Magic is as simple as running the php_manual_en.hhp that is
>> created in your output folder.
>
> I've followed your instructions and the regular CHM file builds
> correctly [1]. May I assume that the download section features a
> December 2007 manual only because the release process is not automated
> and nobody did it manually?

Correct


> One more question... In the source code there's a make_chm.bat script
> that seems part of this process:
>
> 1. Generate *.html files from DocBook XML
> 2. Transform the *.html files with regular expressions
> 3. Compile into *.chm
>
> It looks like the only way to generate the extended (aka fancy) manual
> with user notes. Is it an old build process that no longer works
> because the regular expressions do not match the new manual TOC?

Don't know why it doesn't work, but I suppose you are right.
The problem we are facing is that noone understands it well enough
(and has the time) to implement it into our current rendering
application (PhD) :(

-Hannes