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Re: looking to document docbook preparation andpresentation on red hat
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:07:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: looking to document docbook preparation andpresentation on red hat
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:48:53AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > hmmm ... that's not at all obvious from the "rpm -qi" on that RPM, or from
> > the man pages of the included binaries, which suggest pretty strongly that
> > those binaries are SGML-only. perhaps the man pages should be modified
> > to make this clearer.
>
> Now that I think about it more, there are some transformations that jw
> doesn't handle in XML---they are the ones that use perl-SGMLSpm, so
> that's man and texinfo. I think the other destination formats should
> work in XML though since they use openjade.
ok, so i'm getting a clearer picture. again, what i really wanted to
document was very much the *minimal* configuration one needs to start
writing docbook in XML, and generating the most common output formats,
without overloading the poor newbie (i.e., me :-) with a lot of
information he or she doesn't need to know.
so far, then, i can conclude that i don't care about SGML, and i can
pass on DSSSL and concentrate on XSL. that makes for a more concise
doc.
any other advice?
rday