Re: DOCBOOK: Change Bars

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at pasteur dot fr>]

On Monday 4 October 1999, at 9 h 8, the keyboard of Bob Van Valzah 
<Bob@WhiteBarn.Com> wrote:

> What options do I have for generating change bars as I revise a DocBook
> document? 

Hmmm, what are change bars? The proper place to put revision history seems to 
be <revhistory> but, with the revision control tool I use, CVS, there is 
apparently no simple way to put automatically the CVS log in <revhistory>. So, 
in the mean time, I just use <releaseinfo> with CVS variables like $Id$. In 
the future, may be a small Perl script to convert CVS log to SGML?

> Is integration with a revision control system possible? Which
> backends support such output?

Norman Walsh's Modular Stylesheets display the <revhistory> fine in the HTML 
output. For the Print output, it is ignored by default in most cases (I put it 
in <artheader>):

(element (artheader revhistory) (empty-sosofo))

but this probably can be overriden.