From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 18:46:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA08092 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 18:46:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA08046 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 18:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA11664; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:45:49 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:45:47 +1100 From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com ("Jordan K. Hubbard") Cc: francisco@natserv.com ("Francisco Reyes"), chat@freebsd.org ("FreeBSd Chat list") Subject: Re: FreeBSD into larget corp. environment? References: <199701041449.JAA09429@revelstone.jvm.com> <5370.852418619@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5370.852418619@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" on Jan 4, 1997 14:56:59 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > I tried once to help with documentation and found it frustrating. If > > they could just give a bit more guidance on how to do SGML that would > > be a great starting point. I tried looking at the existing code and > > didn't get too far. > > But it's just not that complex? No, it isn't complex. Especially so if you've fiddled with html and got the idea of how a markup language works. Same principle (html is an sgml subset, with its own dtd). > I appreciate the fact that a guide would be helpful, Yep, it would. I didn't manage to find much helpful on the Linuxdoc dtd, though, after some hours of looking, and this is really what is needed, not so much sgml itself which apart from the intricacies of setting up a new DTD is conceptually straight-forward. OTOH, the docbook dtd does come with a sizeable amount of documentation. It'll be good when that is finally integrated. > Pretty much all of us learned SGML just from looking at the existing > examples. We're not talking rocket science here, after all, just a > simplistic markup language. :) Just to clarify, it is probably the Linuxdoc DTD you're mainly talking about here. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/