From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 26 13:54:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01D914FD6 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id NAA06275; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA20858; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:53:19 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn5.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA16386; Mon, 26 Apr 99 13:53:17 PDT Message-Id: <3724D23B.1D611284@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:53:15 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: W Gerald Hicks , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Debian Touts Integrated SGML Environment References: <199904260044.UAA29261@bellsouth.net> <19990426195453.A75845@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 08:44:25PM -0400, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > At least that's the title of a page on the Debian website, dated Mar 30, 99. > > Got a URL? http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990330 It only took two clicks to find it, not a difficult search. > As a general note; while the db2html scripts and such like might be quite > useful to the absolute novice, I don't see the Doc. Proj. using them when > converting the DocBook documents to other formats. > > This is partly because the mechanism we have at the moment works nicely, > and follows the BSD tradition. It's also because I don't want to add yet > another program (Python) that people need to have installed before they > think they can useful contribute documentation. And your tool is? Make, I assume? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message