Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs

Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs

[Björn Bidar]

Hello,

Recently I have been enjoying the integrated way
that Emacs works for many things but especially
viewing documentation inside Emacs was especially handy.

Some projects use gtk-doc. Is there a way to bridge
the gap between their HTML docs and Emacs?

I found gtk-look[1] but that isn't exactly what I want.
Ideally something that converts gtk-docs to info would be
great.

Other related solutions for HTML based documentation might
also work.

Have a nice day,

Björn

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[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Gtk

Re: Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs

[James Thomas]

Björn Bidar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Recently I have been enjoying the integrated way
> that Emacs works for many things but especially
> viewing documentation inside Emacs was especially handy.
>
> Some projects use gtk-doc. Is there a way to bridge
> the gap between their HTML docs and Emacs?
>
> I found gtk-look[1] but that isn't exactly what I want.
> Ideally something that converts gtk-docs to info would be
> great.

The website says that it outputs Docbook, and I find that there's a
docbook2x-texi package. Haven't used it though.

> Other related solutions for HTML based documentation might
> also work.

But I wrote this post mainly to crow about how great it is to have
python (sphinx) documentation in info:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/Mar/creating-info-manuals-and-adding-them-into-emacs/

(Often with some bugs in the ouput that one has to manually work around)

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Re: Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs

[Mekeor Melire]

You might be interested in:

https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-devhelp

Re: Bridging the gap between gtk-doc and Emacs

[Björn Bidar]

Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> writes:

> You might be interested in:
>
> https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-devhelp

That works great! However it doesn't work for Doxygen or Qt Help docs.
Any ideas for those?