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<li><em>To</em>: ldp-discuss <<A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: General comments and suggestions</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Kim Lester <<A HREF="mailto:kim@dfusion.com.au">kim@dfusion.com.au</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 03 May 2000 01:50:50 +1000</li>
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<li><em>Organization</em>: Datafusion Systems Pty Ltd</li>
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Some thoughts, bear with me if I am saying something
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silly obvious or already done. I've been away for a awhile and
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can't read all the old posts (now if we had a meta search... :-) )
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1) The LDP site needs a simple "by topic" index for the HOWTOs.
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Eg:
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Hardware
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CPU
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Alpha
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Laptops
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4mb
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CDs
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CDROM
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Disks
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IDE
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ZIP
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SCSI
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Modems
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Cable
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Network
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...
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Mice
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Busmouse
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Graphics
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3dfx
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Linux (System)
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Booting
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Book Disk
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Boot Prompt
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Network
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Routing
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AX-25
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...
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Graphics
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Applications
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AI
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Benchmarks
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Languages
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Assembler
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C++...
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Human Languages
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Belgian
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Here there are several top levels
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there could be one or two more. I'm happy to do this
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manually but I think it would be better if we
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used the meta-data abilities of SGML/XML to add
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a couple of entities like <keyword> (I defer to those
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who know better) to each document.
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It would only take a couple of hours to do this for all
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the doucments and it would be done for all time.
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Then all we do is write a simple perl script (etc)
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(eg using associative arrays). We could do a full
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permuted index quite simply (any maybe that should be
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an option) but for the main web page we might just
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limit it to a few well chosen categories.
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2)
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Hmmm bedtime, 2) etc will have to wait...
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Question: I'm getting old :-) and would like a "nice"
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SGML environment - ie one that deals in SGML DocBook
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structures but has some WYSI_Approx_WYG to make
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the structure stand out rather than the syntax.
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Lyx sounds like it partially fits the requirements
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but it appears not to do DocBook properly (???)
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The thought of emacs doesn't wildly enthuse me.
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Should I be sitting down and writing a GUI XML/Docbook
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editor for us all, or should I go and *shock horror* buy
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one for myself or is there something in the works
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already that someone knows of ?
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Comments appreciated.
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regards
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Kim
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P.S. M$ Word has an SGML output translator called SGML
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Author 1.2. It isn't cheap (around USD500) but I
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thought some might like to know. No I don't like
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word but a lot of tech docs are written in it because
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that's what corporate IT depts impose on tech depts.
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I might be getting at least an eval copy of this.
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If someone wants any .doc -> .sgml conversions
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(eg Security guide) let me know and I'll see what I
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can do.
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--
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Kim Lester
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Senior Engineer,
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