The DocBook backend tools we use to generate the various forms of our documentation were chosen almost a decade ago by Rafael (since retired from PLplot) and some of them are quite dated. For example, the last official release of openjade was done in 2003 (!). To address this general issue I have decided to start a review of the DocBook backend tools we use.
The current status is I have collected (revision 11337) a list of the backend tools we currently use in doc/docbook/README.developers, and I hope to get advice on newer/better replacements (if any) for those tools through a post I am about to send to the DocBook App mailing list. If I obtain some useful information as a result of that post, I will share it here. My hope is that if we improve the backend tools, then some of the nagging documentation bugs (such as the one I found today which demonstrated UTF-8 was currently not accepted by openjade in our DocBook source) would be eliminated. We'll see! Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
