Subject: Re: your mail From: Nik Clayton <nik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:20:06 +0100 |
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 01:12:36PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Nik Clayton <nik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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. > > Well, obviously, the only possible solution which fits your > requirements is to write an NROFF backend for Jade (or OpenJade). > While yer at it, we *really* need a rewritten, raw TeX backend. If > you're ambitious, how about a TeXinfo backend too, to make the GNU > folks happy (texinfo is still their official documentation format). Yep. If I had both the time and technical know-how (C++ is not my area of expertise) I'd have embarked on this project myself. Because I don't I'm reduced to standing on the side-lines, shouting "Rah rah" every time it looks like someone might volunteer to do it. I live in hope. > Personally, if all you're trying to achieve is <refenty> -> manpage, I > would think the easiest way would be to (gasp) write your own > formatter in Perl or Python or whatever (hopefully free tool, please). Yeah. If the crunch comes then that's what I'll do. But I won't need it for another year or more, so I haven't done anything about it. The aforementioned Chuck Robey is working on an XML based system to do DocBook -> *roff using (I assume) sx to get DocBook SGML to DocBook XML, and then an XSLT translator to go from there to *roff. 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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