Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:55:36 +0100
On Wednesday 12 January 2000, at 3 h 29, the keyboard of Kim Lester
<kim@dfusion.com.au> wrote:
> I believe it fair to say that current concensus
> would be for an SGML/XML/Docbook/DTD type solution
Is there a consensus for XML instead of ordinary SGML?
> e) Enough free/open tools are available to permit actual use.
This is the big problem with DocBook. Free tools do exist but are typically
quite painful to install (apart from proper systems, with good packages).
Writers of documentation :-) are welcome to produce HOWTOs for installation of
a nice set of tools on various Unix.
And converting to ASCII is painful and never yields good files (a translator
to groff would be ideal). Converting to PostScript needs to go through
jadetex, which is enough to make me sick.
> If anyone wants to come with me, I'm going to start
> at the useful FreeBSD SGML link site:
>
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/sgml.html
A bit outdated. FreeBSD switched to DocBook a long time ago.
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