From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 8 10:34:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19269 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 10:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19243 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 10:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.204]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23950; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:34:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23918; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:34:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:34:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Documenters Subject: Re: How do I write this SGML stuff? In-Reply-To: <199606081030.MAA00631@allegro.lemis.de> 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 Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > 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. > > Are we wed to LaTeX? I find it a very turgid formatter. I tried > years ago, and came to the conclusion that I'd rather use plain TeX. > When I wrote my book for O'Reilly, they wanted me to write it in > troff, and I wanted to write it in TeX. In the end, I gave in, and to > my surprise I found troff a *whole* lot better than TeX or > derivatives. I'm not trying to convert people, but I do think we > should have a choice. No, we aren't wed to LaTeX, we're discussing sgml tools that convert to troff (which I like too) and to html, LaTeX, etc. We don't write our docs in troff, we're doing it in some kinda sgml, and I guess the discussion is about the tools we're using to get from sgml to (whatever). I've been talking to John Fieber about 'instant', and getting an updated view of John Clark's sgml tools. I'm very unhappy with our present conversion tools from sgml to whatever, because they are one pass things, have limited intelligence and capability, and were chiefly made to convert from sgml to LaTeX. John's working on getting some conversion specs going for instant, and I'm awaiting some sample "transpec" files from him, demonstating 'instant'. I'm also going out to the big local bookstore today, to drop more money on an sgml book. Groan. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------