Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:25:50 +0100
On Wednesday 12 January 2000, at 18 h 12, the keyboard of Kim Lester
<kim@dfusion.com.au> wrote:
> Linuxdoc - I believe this has been deprecated in favour
> of the more sophisticated and more general
> DocBook ???? ( See LDP)
In theory, yes, the LDP announced the move a long time ago. In practice, the
LDP HOWTOs are still in LinuxDoc. The FreeBSD people, the second largest user
of LinuxDoc, completed its move to DocBook.
> DocBook - Developed by OASIS (and SGML group for open doc
...
> DocBook is apparently used by many large companies
It is used by many free sofware projects:
- FreeBSD (a very good and important documentation)
- KDE
- Gnome
- PostgreSQL
> Apparently EMACS has a smart SGML mode package (PSGML)
Very good: highly recommended.
> (Emacs has everything, but do you have enough fingers
> to invoke the commands: Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift-Tab... :-) )
You have menus, too (PSGML has many menus), and you can always call the
command by name.
> SGML Tools
...
> I _think_ Version 2.x can output in the following formats:
...
> plain text (?)
With HTML, then lynx... The result is awful.
> Version 1.0 (linuxDoc source format only) can output to at least
> the following. I'm not sure how version 2.0 stands:
Version 1 and 2 of SGMLtools are *completely* different, not only in the DTD
they process, but also in internal architecture.
> It occurs to me that SGML isn't currently a viewable source
> format either (files would probably have to be converted
> to HTML on the fly etc).
Why "on the fly"? It is much slower and is more burden for the server.
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