From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 5 14:53:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08943 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08933 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA16424 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:53:05 -0700 Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13920; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:51:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00320; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:51:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:51:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Ollivier Robert cc: FreeBSD documentation list Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? In-Reply-To: <199606050633.IAA02040@keltia.freenix.fr> 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 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 ....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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------