As part of the move to DocBook the SGML-Tools people are also developing a GROFF back-end for jade and donating that (of course) back to the jade people. They use that back-end to get ASCII via GROFF. This all is planned to be available also in late fall.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This has been bothering me for a little while. The postscript output from > > DebianDoc seems to have a lot of little glitches, like extra or missing > > spaces; line breaks seem to matter, where in LaTeX they would not. Is this > > problem with DebianDoc or lout? How difficult would it be to use LaTeX > > instead, if the latter? Is this a known problem? Does the tutorial do > > something wrong to cause this? > > You know, Havoc, I personally am not sure. I generally avoid lout for > everything but ASCII output. I suggest you submit a bug. > > What would be nice would be to have alternate techniques for > formatting debiandoc-sgml documents. I maintain both jade and sdc. > With jade, we'd need DSSSL to be able to format debiandoc-sgml, but > the limitation with jade is that it doesn't have ASCII or NROFF > backends, and it seems that people are loath to add backend to jade > since apparently its wierd C++ code. sdc's problem is that it uses > non-free bigloo, but little birdies tell me that will be fixed by late > fall. > > -- > .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.tip.nl/users/ardo.van.rangelrooij PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
