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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Poll: name for document formatter
To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 22:19:32 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: scott@statsci.com, doc@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199504282109.RAA05275@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Apr 28, 95 05:09:04 pm
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> Aside from aesthetic problems, the portion of the package
> attribtable to linuxdoc is diminishing and if I have my way will
> disappear completely and be replaced with the docbook DTD.

I'd love to see that happen but last time I looked at gmat (the
O'Reilly translator for Docbook), it required the new sgml
parser sp from Clark (a big thing in C++) and the translator
seemed not that easy to use.

Granted, the Docbook DTD is far superior to Linuxdoc but
it seemed too much.
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Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
  FreeBSD keltia 2.0.950416-SNAP #17: Sun Apr 16 17:12:07 MET DST 1995