From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Sep 3 07:40:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA02588 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 07:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA02581; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 07:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05635; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:40:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 09:40:24 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Hanai Hiroyuki cc: doc@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: SGML doc changes In-Reply-To: <9609030322.AA06367@adjanta.astec.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Hanai Hiroyuki wrote: > I've not been heard about `instant' and I'm wondering whether it can > handle Japanese character or not. > So, I want to use your new tools on our Japanese documents. It appears to handle the HTML transform, but look at http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber/japanized-files/obj/handbook.html to verify. The ascii and postscript transform fall over when they hit groff. What sort of tweaks does groff need to work? Are they the sort of tweaks that could be added to the FreeBSD's groff? I know very little about multibyte character processing but I suspect instant's handling is more accident than intentional. Instant doesn't really do much with the actual content. However it does a little more than sgmlsasp did so there is some potential for mangling. I'm about to go down to the library and check out "Understanding Japanese Information Processing" (Publ. O'Reailly) to educate myself on this matter. > But, Docbook seems a little bit complicated for me. It is almost caos ;-) > Is there any possiblity to define our DTD as a subset of Docbook? In practice, actual Docbook markup isn't more complex, but there certainly are a lot of tags to choose from. What I'll do when a changeover takes place is make a short style-guide/example to illustrate the more common elements and markup tasks. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================