Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:51:31 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun's StarOffice to support DocBook? Message-ID: <19991004005131.L35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <19990913223017.A97095@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990913205548.C2529@marder-1> <19990913211052.D2529@marder-1> <19990913223017.A97095@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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[Old thread revisited] On [19990914 01:45], Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) wrote: >On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> What are the chances we might see StarWriter emerge as the GUI editor >> for DocBook? > >I'd be interested, but I'll believe it when we see it. You see, in order >to do that you'll need some way of pretty printing the DocBook markup >so that (for example) <sect1><title>Foo</title>...</sect1> has the "Foo" >presented in 18pt Times (or whatever) which means stylesheets. > >In order to do this they have three choices -- DSSSL, which is the (or an) >ISO standard for SGML stylesheets. I don't know of anything that >implements DSSSL completely, it's quite a hard problem. > >Or XSL, which is the stylesheet language for XML. Again, I don't know >any commercial product that successfully supports it, let alone a 'free' >one. Norman Walsh now has a beta XSL package. Might this help us a lot? I haven't taken a peek yet, downloaded it though, but that's because of another problem. See my other fun mail ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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