On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:18:05PM +0100, Richard Bos wrote: > Op zaterdag 31 januari 2004 11:01, schreef Richard Bos: > > > What is the proper tool to use to convert the XML documents into nroff > > > man pages? > > > > It is xmlto. ? > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/xmlto.html > > > > You need a current version (1.64.1) of docbook-xsl to have the manpages > > formatted correctly; > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/xsl/index.html > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/docbook-xsl > > > > That seems okay, they are all present in the apt repository :) > > for my feeling it seems more than 4 days ago that I sent this, anyway I'm > eager to know if you are able to process the xml docs. Do you think that > they can be made part of the apt distribution?
Yes, I am able to process them fine and have added them to my local tree. I was not able to apply the patch that you sent to update them to match the current man pages in CVS; it seems to apply to *.sgml instead of *.xml. There is still quite a bit of work to be done. Now the man pages are a mixture of XML and SGML (the apt-utils man pages were not converted). Also, the apt.ent you provided doesn't seem to work with the SGML man pages, so two separate versions will be required. -- - mdz
