docs/en-US/building-documentation.xml

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<section id="building-documentation">
    <title>Building &PRODUCT; Documentation</title>
    <para>To build a specific guide, go to the source tree of the documentation in /docs and identify the guide you want to build.</para>
    <para>Currently there are four guides plus the release notes, all defined in publican configuration files:</para>
    <programlisting>
        publican-adminguide.cfg
        publican-devguide.cfg
        publican-installation.cfg
        publican-plugin-niciranvp.cfg
        publican-release-notes.cfg
    </programlisting>
    <para>To build the Developer guide for example, do the following:</para>
    <programlisting>publican build --config=publican-devguide.cfg --formats=pdf --langs=en-US</programlisting>
    <para>A pdf file will be created in tmp/en-US/pdf, you may choose to build the guide in a different format like html. In that case just replace the format value.</para>
    
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