Eric Thompson wrote:
> I just spent an evening tinkering around with the documentation that I
> downloaded at the CVS repostiory. Perhaps it is convenient for the
> development team to have it in SGML format, but it is very discouraging to
> spend quite a bit of time to just get a plain text or ps representation,
> and still get no reslults. I have limited rescoures, including time, and
> getting Midgard running was an effort in itself. Would be really cool not
> to have to spend tons of time just to get a manual in a simple form. I
> know that SGML is elegant, but would just like a simple, easily accessible
> format to work with. Info file, plain ascii, ps.
SGML is actually not meant to be the presentation format for the manual.
The reason I pointed to the CVS archive yesterday is that I added some
descriptions which will not be available on the website since the
SGML->HTML
conversion failed, and those two descriptions were specifically
requested.
> Not everyone is a master at using DocBook DTD, LaTex, etc.
Not expected to.
> To propagate the Midgard-project it seems you would like to have the
> documentation easily accessible. Is it possible for whoever is generating
> the SGML to also just post a plain text,post script, info version at the
> CVS on the functions, etc?
> site?
I've put up a tarball that has the HTML version at
http://www.iris-advies.com/php/Emile.Heyns/midgard-manual.tar.gz
I'll find a more structural solution to this, though.
Emile
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