Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 08:24:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970515075847.311A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <337A9618.4C98@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > SGML stuff we could (in theory) "add": > There's this site that even keeps a CVS tree: > http://web.inter.NL.net/users/C.deGroot/sgmltools/ This was the basis of the original linuxdoc to (text|latex|postscript|html) conversion used in FreeBSD. However, it was (and still is as far as I can tell) a hideous collection of hacks by people who apparently didn't know much about SGML. I've been replacing the whole system bit by bit. The only remaining piece is the linuxdoc DTD itself, although I've cleaned it up a bit, removing some of the more offensive abuses of SGML. In short, been there, done that! I have not looked at COST too carefully, probably just because I'm not that fond of tcl. > An object oriented toolkit: > http://www.jclark.com/sp/index.htm Jade is the way to go for formatting. The current heart of the FreeBSD SGML conversion system is instant(1) which is more cumbersome, less powerfull, and full of bugs. I brought it in because (a) it was so much better than the original linuxdoc tools and (b) jade was too young. Jade is getting mature enough now that instant's days are definately numbered--I have a list of bugfixes and enhancements to instant that I suspect will never get implemented. :) -john
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