Subject: Re: your mail From: Nik Clayton <nik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:49:23 +0100 |
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:33:26AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > | From our point of view, the killer missing feature from our current > | toolbox is a way to go from DocBook to *roff. A colleague, Chuck > > The RefEntry markup was consciously designed to allow this. Yep. > I know there are at least two or three DocBook to *roff converters for > manual pages. <nods> I know about them, and looked at them. The dilemma I face is this -- I really, really want to avoid having to document and support a plethora of tools, stylesheets, and stylesheet languages. Every new hurdle that gets thrown up is one more barrier to volunteers actually contributing documentation. If I can get a system that uses one suite of apps to produce the formatted output from a single source I'll be a happy man. Jade is almost there, except it doesn't do *roff, and I need it for manual pages. Lynx's formatting engine isn't good enough for "DocBook -> HTML -> plain text" to suffice, and it's also too slow (although the equivalent of catman directories would help this a bit). As soon as I start installing more formatters I'm moving further away from the goal instead of towards it. This is why I'm trying to avoid using tools like "instant". N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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