From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 3 06:21:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF46AA71; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgj@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880551F5E; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r636LibV052698; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from pgj@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.5/Submit) id r636LiGB052697; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 GMT (envelope-from pgj@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201307030621.r636LiGB052697@svn.freebsd.org> From: Gabor Pali Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42122 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 06:21:44 -0000 Author: pgj Date: Wed Jul 3 06:21:44 2013 New Revision: 42122 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42122 Log: - Fixes in the Q2 DocBook entry Submitted by: bjk, wblock Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Wed Jul 3 00:00:54 2013 (r42121) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Wed Jul 3 06:21:44 2013 (r42122) @@ -425,29 +425,29 @@ -

The Documentation Project has been behind with the used - standards until recently when we switched to a real XML toolchain - and DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsoleted +

The Documentation Project has been using old versions of markup + standards until recently when we switched to a real XML + toolchain and DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsolete technologies — DSSSL and Jade. Besides, DocBook 5.0 - provides a cleaner markup and some nice new features.

+ provides cleaner markup and some nice new features.

The objective of this project is to upgrade the documentation set to DocBook 5.0 and to find a way to properly render our - sources without using DSSSL since the DSSSL stylesheets are + sources without using DSSSL, since the DSSSL stylesheets are discontinued and cannot render DocBook 5.0. The documentation sources have already been successfully transformed to DocBook - 5.0 and the development of the rendering process is under + 5.0 and updates to the rendering process are under development. The common opinion among &os; developers is that Java is a heavy dependency that should be avoided. This has suggested the transformation of DocBook sources to TeX and use TeX as a rendering backend. There are two ways to do this; the sources can be transformed either directly or through the XSL FO - output generated by the stylesheets that the DocBook Project - provides. The latter approach has been chosen as a preferred + output generated by the stylesheets provided for the DocBook Project. + The latter approach has been chosen as a preferred way since it better fits the existing documentation infrastructure and provides easier customization.

This project is generously founded by The &os; Foundation.

This project is generously funded by The &os; Foundation.