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<li><em>To</em>: "'Pal Domokos'" <<A HREF="mailto:pal.domokos@usa.net">pal.domokos@usa.net</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: RE: Kudos and question</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Gregory Leblanc <<A HREF="mailto:GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu">GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:21:34 -0800</li>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Pal Domokos [<A HREF="mailto:pal.domokos@usa.net">mailto:pal.domokos@usa.net</A>]
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> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 7:08 AM
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> To: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
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> Subject: Kudos and question
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> Hi,
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> First of all, kudos to Guylhem, Joshua, Greg, Stein, Jorge, David
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> and all others who run the linuxdoc project and site: you're doing an
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> excellent job. If only spam could be kept away from this list ...
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>
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> I have a few questions about the current state of the DocBook-ization
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> of linuxdoc. Perhaps it would be beneficial to all authors if somebody
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> clarified these issues.
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>
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> So: all existing HOWTOs had been converted to DocBook, as we all know.
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> Furthermore, HOWTOs are now accepted in DocBook format also.
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> My question is: what if I decide to migrate to DocBook and send all
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> future updates of my HOWTO in this format? How will the LinuxDoc
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> version of the HOWTO get updated? Or is the DocBook format the
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> "official" source now and are all other, non-SGML variants
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> produced from this source? In this case, we probably don't need
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> the files in LinuxDoc format any more.
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> (Not that I'm eager to move to DocBook: I read Jorge's tutorial,
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> then took a look at Norman Walsh's book and decided that I needed
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> a tool to cope with this DTD. I don't know if the DocBook support
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> in Lyx is good enough for an average HOWTO.)
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As soon as an author feels ready, and writes their own HOWTO in DocBook, the
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LinuxDoc version will be removed, the the DocBook version becomes the
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official source, and all other outputs are generated from that. I just want
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to make a couple of points for people who are moving to DocBook. First,
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while we've run the LinuxDoc HOWTOs through a script to convert them to
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DocBook, DocBook has FAR more features for technical writers than LinuxDoc
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did. The DocBook "output" of your HOWTO may be a good starting point, or
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you may wish to start from scratch. I believe that to take advantage of
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some of the features of DocBook, you'll probably need MORE markup in your
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document, but it will allow things like much better searching, and better
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integration into online help tools, like the new GNOME Help browser (which
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is still a few months off). I'm eager for DocBook 5.0 (towards the end of
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this year), and Mozilla, because they will allow the use of XML. This will
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allow people to use the native DocBook version of HOWTOs, with all of their
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special markup for key words, and for index terms, etc. to make the HOWTOs
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much easier to glean information out of. I think I've rambled enough,
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please let me know if you have more questions.
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> Miscellaneous: about a month ago somebody sent a guide, called RUTE,
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> to this list, as a donation to linuxdoc. Has anybody answered
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> the post?
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I don't know, I'll go see if I can find that message. I don't recall
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reading that message.
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Greg
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