Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> 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 Message-ID: <201307030621.r636LiGB052697@svn.freebsd.org>
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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 @@ </contact> <body> - <p>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 + <p>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.</p> + provides cleaner markup and some nice new features.</p> <p>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.</p> - <p>This project is generously founded by The &os; Foundation.</p> + <p>This project is generously funded by The &os; Foundation.</p> </body> <help>
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