From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H0s1V-0000C7-3a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:10:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBV485tI015840; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:08:05 GMT Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBV44P1I009021 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:04:26 GMT Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D047BD91; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:04:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:04:24 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: mcbrides9@comcast.net Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index Message-ID: <20061230230424.78745540@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <200612302220.18268.mcbrides9@comcast.net> References: <9acccfe50612301603k15644cu3b2a7777ad975b30@mail.gmail.com> <200612302220.18268.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a5b61bc3-40e6-443d-9a32-ea2fd57c9904 X-Archives-Hash: a006ac1d8b37df0135d240b2f6cb6712 On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's > > wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages > > because it's not indexed. > > > > So I started building a Perl script to create a top-level > > HTML index page automatically from the .html files it > > finds lying around. I started with just the contents of > > /usr/share/doc. > > > > Before I go too much farther, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows > > of an existing product (that is surely more refined than > > this little starter gizmo I've got so frar) that does the > > same or similar thing? > > > > If not, are there any other places where generally useful > > HTML might be hiding? > > > > I've been doing a similar project using python. I scan the entire > filesystem for html, pdf and chm files. Once found, I grab matching > portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... > > Nice to know that someone else has the desire for handy document > indexes... I, for one, would be interested in seeing a copy of your script :-> David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list