[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 11:34:25AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If you ask me, I think the RMS is on the wrong path with texinfo. > > > SGML is the whisper of the future. Maybe you want to ask him if they > > > dont want to donate a texinfo backend to jade dsssl engine?
> > How much work is involved here? I see the existing DSSSL source for other > > formats is around 9000 lines according to wc. Is this something likely to > > happen if there's interest, or a huge pain they'd have to pay someone to > > do? Don't confused the "stylesheets" (DSSSL) with the jade backend. > Well, it is so that the DSSSL standard is huge (several hundred pages) > and harder to read than the SGML standard. James Clark does wonderful > things, but he is also very busy. You would need someone who has > knowledge about C++, SGML and DSSSL. The standard is not set in stone, > too. Currently, Jade is only evolving very slow. Yes, too slowly, if you ask me, although I'm please to see someone's working on a nroff/ascii backend to jade. Once the backend is there, then doing the style is pretty easy. > OTOH, if the GNU project is *really* serious about texinfo, support > for SGML/DSSSL is a *must*, because this is the future. > I think they would have to pay :) but maybe there are really people > interested in such a project. Currently, a groff backend is being > written. Backends for html, rtf and tex (with jadetex) already exist. > Which this amount of example code, it should probably not be too > hard. Don't think that jade is the only SGML process out there. 'sdc' (program and the debian package, maintained by me) will right here and now produce NROFF (-mandoc), ASCII, info, HTML, LaTeX, Lout, and PS/PDF (via Lout or LaTeX). It's in contrib because it uses the non-free bigloo scheme compiler. The other drawback to sdc is that is does not use DSSSL and it only supports a few DTDs (it's own, which I liek a lot, linuxdoc, with some problems; debiandoc support would probably be easy to add). [Early hint, don't spread it around. A friend of mine is nearly complete porting sdc to guile, the FSF scheme compiler. Once that's done (either forking or not) him and I are hoping to work on making sdc use DSSSL.] -- .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
