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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: RE: DocBook Walkthrough?</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>: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:23:31 -0700</li>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Gerard Beekmans [<A HREF="mailto:gerard@linuxfromscratch.org">mailto:gerard@linuxfromscratch.org</A>]
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> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 6:01 AM
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> To: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
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> Subject: Re: DocBook Walkthrough?
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> > Pardon me but these changes were made to the sgmltools
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> almost a year ago.
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> > Using the ID stuff is the proper way. I still feel you try
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> > file do what the stylesheets should handle.
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> Sure, but what if somebody doesn't use sgmltools? I've used
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> sgmltoos-2.0.2 but the id= attribute didn't work for
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> filenames, i had to
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> use the <?dbhtml> tag.
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> I myself have a high preference to use stylesheets and DTD's
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> unmodified
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> as they are downloaded from sites as docbook.org open-source.org (or
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> something like that?) since that's the version most people
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> have. If I go
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> and use modifications that only have made in sgmltool's version of the
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> stylesheets then those SGML files would only work best with that
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> sgmltols version and not universally.
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I do not see any problems with using modified stylesheets. The stylesheets
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are NOT any sort of standard, except a de-facto one. DocBook is NOT where
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you change how your document looks, only what it means. If you want to
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change how it looks, make changes to the stylesheets. I hate to sound like
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a purist, but that's the best way to to do things. If you do make changes,
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and want to let everyone process the document into binaries that are the
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same as yours, provide them with the stylesheet modifications that you've
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made.
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> All I am doing it writing SGML that has the same output for everybody
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> regardless the tool they happen to use (plain jade with default
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> stylesheets and DTD, or sgmltools with their modified versions and
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> perhaps other tools. Most of them all use the 'jade' package
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> and built a
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> front-end around it. So I just run jade directly without
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> front-ends (and
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> write a few simple shell scripts so I don't have to type the long jade
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> commands to get what I want).
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DocBook isn't about output, it's about content. I use the cygnus rpm
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scripts and wrappers. They are, as you said, just a frontend to jade, like
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everything else. All of the frontends should provide some sort of method to
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use an alternative stylesheet, so it doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
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Why do you want to write your own front ends, when there are already at
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least two other groups of people writing these?
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Greg
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