From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 5 14:46:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08553 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA08532 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA05860; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:46:03 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id XAA24936; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 23:45:25 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.4/keltia-uucp-2.8) id IAA02040; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:33:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199606050633.IAA02040@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 08:33:54 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: doc@freebsd.org (FreeBSD documentation list) In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Jun 4, 96 10:06:37 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2073 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL19 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ....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... :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Tue Jun 4 00:25:26 MET DST 1996