From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 11:53:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03196 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from hod (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03190 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA07233; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:52:54 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA00298; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:52:51 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703201952.LAA00298@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: fonts with .bdf extension In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Mar 20, 97 11:09:36 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:52:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: kline@tera.com, imdave@synet.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Doug White: > On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Sorry for straying so far from the original > > topic; this is a good time to ask. Do we have > > an SGML viewer for FreeBSD? > > You can't really "view" SGML since it's a generic markup language with a > non-specific rendering. You can take SGML and convert it to say, HTML or > PostScript using 'sgmlfmt' (or is it 'instant'? I'm out of date) and view > that. > > 2.2-RELEASE should be able to build these properly. > The reason I brought this up is that many months back I asked on the sgml newsgroup if there was any such viewer for Unix, and one gentleman said that his company was writing one for Windose. He was looking for beta-testers. I had 0.0 interest in that. But if something can take SGML and cvt it to PS, that's a win. Also, if/when HTML-3.0 is ever implemented, same thing. Thanks. gary kline >