Jan Dvorak wrote: > Hi fellow fromscratchers, > > ... > > But... HLFS needs you. Right now, Robert has to go through pain and > suffering of not having nice colored HTML book and having to write > shell scripts in an old text editor. And not only him. Other people, > especially newbies, have no chance of understanding fruits of his > work if they are not served with sweet, colorful topping of CSS.
I'm sorry - I obviously don't get it. Isn't the Book written in DocBook (which itself is SGML/XML)? Do you want to write a converter from HTML to DocBook? Or some wiki with export to DocBook? Or do you want to move completely from DocBook to wiki? How would you handle exports to TeX/PDF/PS then? Could you, please, be more specific about "not having colored HTML book"? What would you like let's say http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/view/unstable/glibc-2.6/chapter06/butterfly-toolchain.html to look like? Wouldn't it be possible to achieve it by changing the XSLTs applied during the export from DocBook to HTML? And what do you mean by: "suffering of writing scripts in an old text editor"? What else than a "text editor" is one supposed to use for writing shell scripts? I'm trying to say that you may be wasting your time on something which is not necessarily needed. IMHO the only valid reason seems to be only the easiness of updating. Then however, reformatting the sources in such a way that plain-text diffs of the XML sources are be easier to apply might be a better option (sorry if that is done already - I just checked a half year old version which happens to be on my HD). Access rights, merging capabilities etc. would be sorted out by a (carefully selected) versioning system. Kind regards Petr -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
