Re: Document Formats


Guylhem Aznar (guylhem@metalab.unc.edu)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:09:22 +0100


On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:55:36AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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.

We can still improve them.

> 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.

Once we agree on a documentation format, no doubt we will improve/recode
the tools.

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