Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:08:31 -0700 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: DocBook V3.0 released] Message-ID: <32D6BDDF.176F@fsl.noaa.gov>
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After several months (and a heroic documentation effort by Terry and
Norm -- thanks, guys!), DocBook V3.0 is finally ready for release.
Happy new year, all...
Eve
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6 January 1997
SUMMARY: DocBook Version 3.0 has been released and is now available
from the Davenport Group's Web site (accessible through
http://www.ora.com/davenport and ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/).
Some of the new and changed features of this version are as follows:
o Reworking of the bibliographic markup to make it more flexible and
usable.
o New retrieval metadata that applies to whole divisions: flat keywords,
hierarchical subject topics, and sets of index terms.
o New inline elements: ErrorCode, Prompt, and EnVar.
o Broadening of FuncSynopsis content.
o Broadening of Article content.
o Changeover to the SGML Open CALS full table model.
o New parameterization scheme for the Role attribute that makes it easier
to customize Role individually for each element.
Current DocBook users should note that a handful of planned
backwards-incompatible changes have been made. In general, these should
not adversely affect existing documents. Note also that comments have
been added to the DTD to reflect the planned backwards-incompatible
changes that will be made in V4.0 (no delivery date scheduled). There
is also a 40issues.txt file in the DocBook distribution that summarizes
these planned changes.
Maintainers and other DTD readers may want to take note of a few small
name changes that have been made to parameter entities; these may affect
existing customization layers.
Updated reference documentation for V3.0 is available; fully updated
maintenance and user's documentation is forthcoming.
You can download the files related to DocBook V3.0 from the following
locations:
o ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/docbook/docbk30.tar.Z
(requires tar and uncompress)
o ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/docbook/docbk30.zip
(requires pkunzip)
Comments on DocBook are always welcome. You can send comments and
questions to the Davenport list (davenport@online.ora.com), or directly
to the maintainers of DocBook, Terry Allen (tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com) and
Eve Maler (elm@arbortext.com). Thank you.
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