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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:25:02 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: LinuxDoc -> DocBook cutover
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In-Reply-To: <19990324213435.A21081@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 09:34:35PM +0000
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On Wednesday, 24 March 1999 at 21:34:35 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> Folks,
>
> [ sent to -doc and -current, reply-to points back to -doc ]
>
> I'm reasonably happy with the state of the DocBook handbook now, and am
> about ready to do the cutover.
>
> This involves changes to the website and to "make release".  I'm waiting
> for feedback on patches that make these changes from a few interested
> parties, and will then make the changes.  Probably at around 20:00 GMT on
> Friday 26th March.
>
> There is one outstanding issue with the DocBook conversion that I am aware
> of;
>
>   *  Generating the PDF version does not work, due to an overflow in v1.33
>      of the DSSSL stylesheets that do the formatting.  All other formats
>      (Postscript, plain text, HTML, RTF) are generated correctly.
>
>      This problem is fixed in v1.37 of the stylesheets, but that revision
>      introduces a different problem that badly affects the formatting.
>      I am collaborating with the stylesheet author on a fix.
>
> I do not consider this to be a showstopper.
>
> Any objections?

Go for it!

Greg
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