Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 20:49:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: gmat: an SGML publishing system (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950407204659.8012A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
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I just saw this on an SGML list, and thought it might be interesting to
those I saw were discussing tools to write man pages with, so I'm
forwarding this...
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 15:54:12 -0400
From: Norman Walsh <norm@ora.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <davenport@online.ora.com>
Subject: gmat: an SGML publishing system
Greetings,
At a Davenport Group meeting about a year ago, I described the tools
that we were developing at O'Reilly for publishing from SGML. At the
most recent meeting, I announced the first alpha-test release of that
software.
This is a semi-public announcement of gmat, an SGML publishing system
built around free tools. Gmat provides a method of filtering from
SGML to Troff, LaTeX, HTML, or any other formatting language. The
filters provided in the distribution filter from the DocBook DTD to
Troff, LaTeX, TeXinfo, and HTML (the troff filter is fairly
complete---we use it in production work to publish real books---but
the other filters are little more than proof-of-concept exercises).
In order to use gmat, you must have sgmls (or, preferably, nsgmls from
SP 0.3.5 or later) and Perl5. In order to develop your own filters,
you will have to be comfortable writing object-oriented programs in
Perl5.
If you are interested in gmat, you can get a feel for it's functionality
by looking in
jasper.ora.com:/pub/gmat
If you want to install it, you'll need the files in
jasper.ora.com:/private/ora-gmat-0.1
The README file in that directory explains what the other files are.
This is a limited public announcement of alpha software. After I've
confirmed that other people can install and use it (i.e. that I haven't
left some critical piece out of the distribution!), I'll make a broader
beta-test announcement. In the meantime, please keep it private ;-)
I've setup a mailing list for discussions about gmat, to join the list,
send the message "subscribe gmat-user" in the body of a mail message
to
majordomo@jasper.ora.com
(Note: the "jasper" part is important, even though most mail to O'Reilly
only needs to be addressed to "ora.com".)
Questions, comments, suggestions, etc., are most welcome. Thanks for
your time.
Cheers,
norm
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