Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-28 Thread Greg Morgan
Mike Noyes wrote: > Greg, > I've recommended DocBook XML for over a year. The move to 4.2 is > interesting, but I'd like to see other projects start using it first. LOL. So what you're telling me is that I finally have a clue as to what you were talking about. So DocBook XML 4.1, then? Greg Mo

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-27 Thread Greg Morgan
David Douthitt and Mike Noyes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 05:54:58AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 20:14, David Douthitt wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 04:44:47AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > > > > FreeBSD should have full support for DocBook XML. > > This is why I r

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-22 Thread Greg Morgan
David Douthitt wrote from several messages: > > I've decided I need to revisit the LEAF Developer's Guide, > and want to know what I need to do to make it ready for > this "DocBook" format. > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:55:30PM -0700, Greg Morgan wrote: > > Mike Noyes wrote quoting Julian Churc

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread David Douthitt
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:28:28AM -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > Recent versions of Abiword will read RTF and export to DocBook XML. Excellent! I've Abiword in several places (both FreeBSD and Linux I think). > > It sounds like the usual way is to edit DocBook using text editors > > like Emacs an

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread David Douthitt
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

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread Julian Church
Hi David At 08:48 21/08/02 -0500, David Douthitt wrote: >I've decided I need to revisit the LEAF Developer's Guide, >and want to know what I need to do to make it ready for >this "DocBook" format. I've been working on converting your Developers' Guide to Docbook for a while now. I've got a Doc

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-21 Thread David Douthitt
I've decided I need to revisit the LEAF Developer's Guide, and want to know what I need to do to make it ready for this "DocBook" format. On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:55:30PM -0700, Greg Morgan wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote quoting Julian Church: > > The normal formats are: html, pdf, plain text, and

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-20 Thread Greg Morgan
Mike Noyes wrote: >The two missing graphics are > now in our CVS repository, and they successfully exported this morning. Mike, thanks for your continued hard work keeping the site afloat. Greg Morgan --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: O

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 02:01, Greg Morgan wrote: > The Richard J. Lohman guide > "Creating a Firewall Using EigerStein" is missing several images. Greg, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. The two missing graphics are now in our CVS repository, and they successfully exported this morning. h

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-17 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 02:01, Greg Morgan wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote: > > daily.sh crontab shell script (feedback on this script is appreciated) > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/leaf/devel/mhnoyes/sf-admin/ > > I didn't see anything wrong with daily.sh. Greg, It ran without incid

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-17 Thread Greg Morgan
Mike Noyes wrote: > Greg & Julian, > Here is what we're doing currently for our guides. > > DocBook XML source is generated and placed in our cvs repository. > Generated xhtml, plain text, pdf, and PostScript versions are placed > in cvs with the DocBook XML source. They are then expo

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-16 Thread Julian Church
At 23:55 15/08/02 -0700, Greg Morgan wrote: >I've been exploring docbook myself. It is a bit daunting to come up to >speed at first--I am still not there. The best bit of advice I got was not to try and learn all of XML. It's OK to think of Docbook as a markup language in itself without worryi

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-16 Thread Julian Church
At 07:47 15/08/02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: >On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:10, Julian Church wrote: > > I've a few questions. > >Julian, >I apologize for the severe lag in responding to your post. No problem, Mike. >LDP Author Guide >http://tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/index.html Many thanks for tha

Re: [Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-08-15 Thread Greg Morgan
Mike Noyes wrote quoting Julian Church: > Date: 15 Aug 2002 07:47:13 -0700 > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:10, Julian Church wrote: > > I've a few questions. > > > 2. The DocBook documents will need converting to other more usable formats > > for distribution/posting on the site. I know XML is su

[Leaf-devel] Converting Documentation to DocBook - progress report

2002-07-12 Thread Julian Church
Hi All I've been getting on quite nicely with converting David Douhitt's developers guide to DocBook XML - almost finished now. I hit a few snags getting a decent XML/Docbook development environment together. I'll spare you the long story - suffice to say this has taught me as much about Mac