On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:12:48PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > > Then, you choosed to use the sgml version of DocBook, and not the xml one. > > That's quite sad in my point of view, since tools exists to manage the > > translation of xml files easily. Would it be possible to change the headers > > from: > > <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> > > to: > > <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1//EN" > > "docbook/dtd/xml/4.1/docbookx.dtd"> > > Provided I can get the same quality output from it, yes. This mostly > holds for the dpkg reference manual (see doc/reference.sgml). I'm > currently using a combination of jade, htmldoc and a stylesheet from > LDP. I still need to commit the right make bits for that though.
Could you please do it ? You asked me to reach the same quality with the xml based solution, but I can't see the files generated by your solution ;) Another solution would be that you send me (one of) the generated file(s), so that i can play with it here. > > The benefit is that using the poxml package, you can convert the english > > file to a pot file (separated from the main one, not distributed in the > > tarballs), then, you translate this file like any other po, and then you can > > generate the (translated) xml file back. This ease greatly tracking which > > file is outdated, and which part changed. > > That does sound nice indeed. > > > It wont add any build or plain depend, since this process only have to take > > place on translators machines. Only man pages are distributed. > > I would want to have the translated po file in CVS and generate the > manpages when creating a tarball we can ship. Ok, I'll do that. > > What is your opinion here ? Is there some bad things I missed about docbook > > xml, or could you imagine to switch ? > > If it works I'm definitely in favour of switching. Right now my main > goal is converting all the existing documentation to docbook and I > am familiar enough with the sgml version of docbook to get that > done properly. If you can provide me with a patch to turn a docbook > file into proper XML and tell me the magic commands to turn that > file into goodlooking html, nroff and pdf I'll gladly switch. Ok, I'll look into it now. Please make sure to send me your generated file ;) Bye, Mt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
