Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:52:24 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: formatting tools for Docbook Message-ID: <20060616175224.GA57298@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <4492DA49.80305@chuckr.org> References: <448E5692.1070105@chuckr.org> <448EC4A6.50808@scls.lib.wi.us> <4491B189.3020201@chuckr.org> <54db43990606151444p58169468l36a66814bc6d8425@mail.gmail.com> <4492DA49.80305@chuckr.org>
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006, Chuck Robey wrote: >Bob Johnson wrote: > >>On 6/15/06, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote: >> >>>Greg Barniskis wrote: >>> >>>> Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> >>>docs, because then no one else would be able to use my documents. Am I >>>wrong in considering the FDP generated documentation as being in that >>>category, not terribly uselful outside the FreeBSD project. >> >> >>I believe you are wrong, or I misunderstand the question. >> >>I haven't used XML DocBook, but I've used DocBook with DSSSL. I >>assume what you are really asking is not whether the FreeBSD >>extensions to the DocBook markup language are a problem (they aren't), >>but whether the stylesheets used by FreeBSD are compatible with those >>on other systems. They are (or they claim to be, as I said I haven't >>actually used the XML/XSL tools yet). >> >Look, how come you won't follow politely formed requests? I've asked >now repeatedly, if you haven't yourself used the XML Docbook tools (not >just Docbook, not just your own private mission statement here) then >please to let this go, not to respond. I wrote that same request to my >very first email. How come you can't react politely to a polite request? I use docbook xml for many things here on a FreeBSD 4.8 system (yeah I know it's out of date, but its uptime is 723 days :-). I'm using the OpenPKG portable packaging system's versions of docbook, openjade, tetex along with docbook-toys from SuSE Linux. docbook-toys is a set of scripts, db2dvi, db2html, db2pdf, etc. which provide simple interfaces to openjade and jadetex. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein
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