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Re: Docbook tools
- To: Jason Molenda <jsm@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Docbook tools
- From: Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr>, docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com, kde-docbook@kde.org
> > I was planning to package all this stuff all together - exactly what
> > you have done at Cygnus.
>
> Just to be clear on this point, all the credit for the DocBook packages
> should go to Mark Galassi, not Cygnus.
Mark: THANK YOU!
Before finding these packages, I hunted all over for various
packages which contained the DocBook DTD, the SGMLtools files, jade, other
stuff from Oasis, and even some custom in-house stuff from
O'Reilly&Associates. Finding these packages was a godsend--not to mention
the tutorial (I'm a newbie at this).
These packages are already linked from the
http://developer.gnome.org, and now it looks like they will become the
"standard" packages for the KDE team. Also, I will tell my editor at
O'Reilly about this and they're likely to become the defacto for O'Reilly
authors who want to write in SGML/DocBook.
In case it's still not clear: the work Mark is doing is incredibly
important and will become even moreso as more people start to write Gnome,
KDE, and O'Reilly documentation in SGML format.
> He has decided to keep maintaining them even though he has left Cygnus
> (he's now off playing rocket scientist :-).
If it's not inappropriate to ask... what's the "rocket scientist"
project? Something cool Mark can talk about?
--Derek