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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:11:00 +0100
From:      nik@iii.co.uk
To:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Handbook's DocBook conversion -- state of play
Message-ID:  <19980630101100.10220@iii.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19980618101557.29447@iii.co.uk>; from nik@iii.co.uk on Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:15:57AM %2B0100
References:  <19980618101557.29447@iii.co.uk>

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On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:15:57AM +0100, nik@iii.co.uk wrote:
> I think I'm probably about halfway there (maybe 45% or so). A lot of the
> markup still needs changing (which is taking the majority of the time at
> the moment), a driver file for the DSSSL stylesheet needs creating (to
> specify local conventions and options) and the entity definitions need
> rolling back into the source. Also, the thing needs splitting back
> into separate files. But it's getting there.

Since that message I've been doing some more markup changes. Perhaps 60% of
the way there now.

In addition, I've extended the DocBook DTD to add some new markup, and 
created the first cut of the DSSSL driver file that extends Norm Walsh's
stylesheets.

The results of the most recent HTML conversion are at

    <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/handbook/book01.html>;

It's starting to come together. Internal links are named a little oddly
(there's a definite tendency to include the string "the section called"
before each link, which I need to remove) and entity definitions have not
been rolled back in (which is why no e-mail addresses appear properly).

N
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