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Re: Packaging OpenJade 1.3 ?
- To: Matt Ettus <matt at IntegriNautics dot COM>
- Subject: Re: Packaging OpenJade 1.3 ?
- From: José Romildo Malaquias <romildo at urano dot iceb dot ufop dot br>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:54:22 -0200
- Cc: docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <19991021082523.A2690@urano.iceb.ufop.br> <99102109190504.04283@red5.integrinautics.com>
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:18:26AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote:
> What is OpenJade? I thought Jade WAS "open"...
From the OpenJade Home Page <http://jade-cvs.avionitek.com/>:
New! OpenJade 1.3.
Jade is James Clark's implementation of DSSSL -- Document Style
Semantics and Specification Language -- an ISO standard for formatting
SGML (and XML) documents.
OpenJade is a project undertaken by the DSSSL community to maintain and
extend Jade. OpenJade is distributed under the same license as Jade.
From the distribution one can read <openjade-1.3/jadedoc/index.htm>:
What is OpenJade?
OpenJade is an implementation of the ISO/IEC 10179:1996 standard DSSSL
language. It is based on the James Clark implementation of DSSSL named Jade.
OpenJade is now developed and maintained by the OpenJade team. The current
version is 1.3.
[...]
Copyright
OpenJade is licensed with almost no restrictions even for commercial use (see
license terms).
If you do use OpenJade in a commercial product, we ask you, as a courtesy, to
acknowledge the use of OpenJade.
And yet from the distribution <openjade-1.3/jadedoc/contributors.htm>:
Contributors
James Clark:
The father of Jade. James made the first
version called Jade. He was instrumental to
the idea of a single set of flow objects and
multiple backend formats. James carried the
Jade project for several years until it became
a group project and got renamed OpenJade.
He is no longer participating to the OpenJade
project but his spirit still and will always
remain with us. He created most of the
Openjade code and the SGML/XML and the
RTF backends. But it is shorter to tell what he
didn't do than what he did :-)
Matthias Clasen:
I am an old-time LaTeX user and a scheme
lover. My first jade hacking experience was
trying to use dsssl to produce properly
formatted indexes, realizing the need for
language-dependent string sorting. That code
is now part of OpenJade. Since I think that
the full power of DSSSL can only be explored
with a reasonably complete implementation, I
am working to fill the gaps in jade's coverage
of the standard.
Avi Kivity:
I stumbled on Jade after attempts to format
SGML documents using C++ proved too
cumbersome. I was impressed by the power
of DSSSL and the functional programming
style, which I hadn't used before. My main
interest is fully-integrated backends; that is,
formatters which do the layout themselves
and do not depend on external layout engines
like TeX or Word. I also maintain the CVS
repository and perform builds and releases.
Didier PH Martin:
I encountered Jade simply by browsing to find
new ways to process XML/SGML documents. I
had to learn it without a book and with
minimal documentation. The more I know
about this environment the more I learn to
appreciate it. This is why, I am a fervant
advocate of DSSSL, OpenJade and work hard
to provide to members of the OpenJade
community, a rich environment, an adequate
documentation, a future to this language.
After more than 20 years in the computer
business, I still enjoy creating and learning.
As a canadian member of the ISO Document
Description and Processing Languages
comittee, my goal is to make a DSSSL-2
possible reality.
Peter Nilsson:
The man behind braifo.
Sebastian Ratz:
You have a question about Tex? Sebastian is
the right guy to answer to your question. He
created the Tex backend processor with
David and Kathleen.
Kathleen Marszalek:
She is the bee, working hard and methodical.
She created the Tex and MIF backends with
other members of the team.
Paul Prescod:
Paul has always a good comment to bring to
the table. He created the MIF backend with
Kathleen.
David Megginson:
An other fellow canadian that is bringing
every day to the XML community ideas, new
code, its commitment. He created the Tex
backend with Kathleen and Sebastian.
Basicaly, James Clark does not have enough time to continue working
on Jade, so the OpenJade team was formed to continue Jade
development, but now under the name OpenJade.
Please, visit the OpenJade (and DSSSL) homepage at:
http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL/
to find more information.
As I am a novice trying to learn the basics of SGML and DocBook, I
am not experienced enough to build an RPM package the OpenJade distribution
myself.
If you think it is worth and have enough time to provide us with such a
package I would be grateful.
Thanks.
Romildo.
>
> Thanks
> Matt
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > Is there (or will be) plans to make RPM packages for
> > OpenJade and distribute it with the other docbook-tools?
> > The newest version of OpenJade is 1.3 and was release
> > this week. See the URL:
> >
> >
> -----------------------
> Matt Ettus
> matt@integrinautics.com
> 650-833-5619
--
Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br>
Departamento de Computação
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasil