From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 29 3: 2:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6384D158D9; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 03:02:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA86805; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:01:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:01:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: nclayton@lehman.com Cc: Kris Kennaway , Nik Clayton , current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete In-Reply-To: <19990329105741.L23968@lehman.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > Kris, > > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 04:40:22PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > Almost a year ago I started the project to switch the Handbook over > > > from LinuxDoc to DocBook. > > > > Can I ask what the differences and benefits are? > > As it currently stands in the repository, the DocBook Handbook can be > converted to HTML, Postscript, plain text, and Microsoft RTF. A bug > that I'll fix this week is currently preventing PDF generation. > > Word .doc support is in the pipeline as well, probably for the end of > this week too (I've now given some money to the evil empire so I can > test the output myself). Why? We can use StarOffice 5.0x, after all. > > Next on the list will be whatever internal format the Palm Pilot uses. > I imagine this won't be too useful for the Handbook, but will probably > be quite handy for the FAQ. . . Do you mean the Memo format or the Doc format? I hope you mean Doc... It might not even be worth it to do this, since a very nice, fast browser (Palmscape) has been around for a while on the Palm, and an offline browser called Plucker. > > More information at > > http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/primer/index.html > > N > -- > --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- > --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- > --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message