Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:58:17 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040108194843.L32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <xzp65fm5of9.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > > In the case of the FDP, I think there's an extra problem: the source > > language of the documentation is too complex for a project without > > paid grunt workers. > > Anyone who is reasonably familiar with HTML can learn enough DocBook > to contribute to the FDP in a matter of minutes. There is also > excellent documentation on DocBook online - see for instance: > > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/ > it should be possible to tweak the docbook oputput xslt filter in openoffice to output something that is 90%+ ready for fdp, assuming you just want first time editing and not roundtripping (fdp is still sgml, makes massive use of entities, etc). > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no >
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