Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 00:19:32 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TeX problems; Doc. Proj. needs you! Message-ID: <19981108001932.19745@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19981108100712.V499@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:07:12AM %2B1030 References: <19981107211415.05931@nothing-going-on.org> <19981108100712.V499@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:07:12AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 7 November 1998 at 21:14:15 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > Calling all TeX hackers, your Documentation Project needs you. [...] > I did some playing around with this a couple of years ago. At that > time, it was possible to convert the sgml stuff into either TeX or > *roff source. I tried both routes to PostScript, and found the > appearance of the *roff-derived version to be superior. There's > something about stuff which has been formatted with TeX which shouts > "look at me, I've been formatted with TeX". True enough. That could just be people using similar styles, fonts, and so on. It gets pretty easy to spot web pages that have been processed by Norm Walsh's DocBook HTML stylesheets as well :-) > In addition to that, I consider TeX to be a piece of *(&$*. This is > not lack of experience: I used TeX for years before being forcibly > converted to *roff. If there's any interest in going the *roff path, > count me in. Chuck Robey's mailed me and expressed interest in doing this, but says he won't be able to get to it for 45 days or so, because of real world commitments. If you wanted to liase with him that would be great. I think the most useful contribution would be a *roff backend for Jade, because we then have something that's not tied to any one DTD. I have no idea how difficult that would be to do, and involves C++ (you may or may not consider that a plus). Failing that, anything that can read DocBook and spit it *roff is good, and will be greeted with open arms. Can we go from *roff to PDF? N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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