Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:51:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: FreeBSD documentation list <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960605174948.32250B-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606050633.IAA02040@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that Chuck Robey said: > > that trivially in either troff or LaTeX, but I can't find any in the > > handbook, and there's no explanation anywhere I can find. I could even > > turn on underlining, only one kind of emphasis. The idea of having to go > > thru thousands of lines looking for one example, it makes it too hard to > > To be honest, if you know LaTeX, you know the Linuxdoc DTD. Instead of \em, > you just use <em/.../ or <em>...</em>.That was part of this reason I > recommended using the Linuxdoc and started using it for the FAQ two years > ago. > > At the time, there was no real tool to generate text, HTML, LaTeX from a a > common source document. The Linuxdoc is far from perfect but at the time it > seemed one of the best solution... :-) It's doing the mapping from a dtd to a document that has me confused. I'm learning LaTeX, but not making much headway with sgml. Maybe I have to go out and buy Yet Another Book. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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