Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:07:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX problems; Doc. Proj. needs you! Message-ID: <19981108100712.V499@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981107211415.05931@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 09:14:15PM %2B0000 References: <19981107211415.05931@nothing-going-on.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Saturday, 7 November 1998 at 21:14:15 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > Calling all TeX hackers, your Documentation Project needs you. > > The Handbook has been converted to DocBook. This process is (bar some > merging from current content) complete. One of the last hurdles is getting > PostScript and PDF versions of the Handbook generated. When that's done, > we can retire the LinuxDoc version (and start working on the FAQ, and > other tutorials). I did some playing around with this a couple of years ago. At that time, it was possible to convert the sgml stuff into either TeX or *roff source. I tried both routes to PostScript, and found the appearance of the *roff-derived version to be superior. There's something about stuff which has been formatted with TeX which shouts "look at me, I've been formatted with TeX". In addition to that, I consider TeX to be a piece of *(&$*. This is not lack of experience: I used TeX for years before being forcibly converted to *roff. If there's any interest in going the *roff path, count me in. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981108100712.V499>