From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 22:21:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC1F16A500 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:21:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C47C43D41 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:21:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB5MLX5n097409 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:21:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Sender: peter@amidala.datadok.no To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041205013703.GD45875@omina.co.za> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: 05 Dec 2004 23:22:37 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20041205013703.GD45875@omina.co.za> Message-ID: <86eki4s536.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGML, experienced advice wanted ;) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:21:40 -0000 William Fletcher writes: > I was just wondering what precise piece of software I should use to convert sgml to PDF? > Just sort of asking for a general opinion of what is the _best_ > software for this job, etc. Do your sgml files come with DTDs and stylesheets? If so, it should be possible to use something like jade/pdfjadetex for your transformations. The FreeBSD doc project is an example of how this can be done. You might want to at least browse http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/sgml.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html (both contain quite a number of useful references). -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"