From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Nov 7 15:37:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22960 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22921; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04875; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:07:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA02828; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:07:13 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981108100712.V499@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:07:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX problems; Doc. Proj. needs you! References: <19981107211415.05931@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981107211415.05931@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 09:14:15PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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