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<h1>Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source DocumentationSummit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source DocumentationSummit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Sebastian Rahtz <<A HREF="mailto:sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk">sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:23:20 +0100 (BST)</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: docbook-apps <<A HREF="mailto:docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org">docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org</A>>, LDP <<A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>>, docbook-tools list <<A HREF="mailto:docbook-tools@bazar.conectiva.com.br">docbook-tools@bazar.conectiva.com.br</A>></li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg03377.html">m3d7k8y63o.fsf@maya.linux.ca</a>></li>
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> That's all I need to know really: If I were to make the jump to XML
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> and go with these XML tools, I just want assurance that I can get at
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> least the same results that I now get with DSSSL and OpenJade.
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but I dont know what you are doing with DSSSL...
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> Yes. What I mean is, jadetex mungs things which change the meaning of
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> the text and might look amateurish to someone buying a book.
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eh??? what do you refer to? there are some residual problems with things
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like "--", for which you need a patched Jade, but what else?
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> Now do understand that for our internal purposes, Jadetex does a great
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> job, but when I export these docs, I'm getting complaints and this is
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which complainst? please note that bad implementation of widows and
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orphans in section titles isnt "munging", its just a bug
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> document. Ideally, I'd want to take any arbitrary Linux doc from
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> linuxdoc.org and run it through a process that prints as nicely as
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> an IBM Redbook.
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no, sorry, thats still not a specification. i dont know what ared book
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is, and i dont know what designs it can encompass
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> Is it fair to say, for our purposes of documenting open source
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> software, FOP is already a viable (TeX-free?) alternative to
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> OpenJade/jadetex for rendering DocBook to the various formats?
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nearly; its not as good as jadetex yet (cant do hyphenation!), but I'd
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look again in 3-4 months.
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> S> I typeset my daughters primary school newsletter using TeX,
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> S> from an XML master file. I translate it to TeX using XSL. is
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> S> that commercial?
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>
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> Primary school parents can get pretty vicious!
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luckily the other parents have not a clue how i do it
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sebastian
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