On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:27:30PM +0100, Julian Church wrote: > I've been working on converting your Developers' Guide > to Docbook for a while now.
I knew that; the reason I brought this up was that I've plans to overhaul the document and to rework it, and I wanted to follow the standard LEAF format. > I emailed you on 12 July not long after I started this work > but it seems you didn't get the message. I did but somehow I must have missed it. I may receive a couple hundred messages a day (most from lists and SPAM). > I spotted a few errors that I made in the conversion that I'd like to sort > out first, but I could email you the xml document in the next day or two if > you'd like? Sure. > >I see that DocBook (v3.1) exists for Red Hat 6.2; will this > >be sufficient? Do I have to upgrade? Will new versions work > >on Red Hat 6.2? > > I'm sure they will - it will generally be a case of getting together new > sets of DTD's and stylesheets, rather than compiling new tools. At the > moment Docbook v4.1.2 is probably the one to go for, because it's XML-based > rather than SGML, which is where Docbook is going apparently. >From the sound of things, I have to install SGMLTools, Jade, OpenJade, DTDs, DSSSL, and DocBook - right? I kept looking for ways to use current word processing tools to create these - but I can't find a lot. There's YAWC for Word - but that's not GPL and requires administrator priviledges - I'm not willing to go that far on my box. Then there's the convertor for OpenOffice (French isn't a problem for me -- at least, not much :-) However, the OpenOffice converter requires OpenOffice - which can be a problem when you've got UNIX and X in a space of about 2.1G or so. Then there's a RTF-to-DocBook converter - but it isn't free. It sounds like the usual way is to edit DocBook using text editors like Emacs and vi. Another question - how well does DocBook formatting translate to physical book form? Have any books been published this way? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
