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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: Manifesto</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>></li>
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Here's a new draft. I've left it an open question as to what format
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we accept for Guides but said that we prefer DocBook.
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Guylhem wanted to mention that we use low resolution plain text and
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HTML since they're suitable for people with old hardware and the
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visually impaired. I didn't add that (yet ?) since I'm not sure that
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plain text is low resolution. It can be printed with a letter quality
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printer with a high resolution of hundreds of dots per inch. HTML is
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often displayed proportionally spaced and since it might include high
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resolution images, it's not necessarily low resolution either. Did
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you mean low bandwidth instead of low resolution?
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Of course there's a high-bandwidth problem with images. The reasons
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why text and HTML (without images) are more suitable for old
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equipment, etc. would take some space to explain. In the interests of
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trying to keep the Manifesto short, I omitted it.
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Another issue is PDF. It's not a free format. I'm not sure we should
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mention it even though we have this format available. So I've
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bracketed it with ?? in the draft. Here is some info about it that I
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got from the Internet:
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* PDF = Portable Document Format
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* Acrobat Reader = Adobe's free software for viewing and printing
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PDF files
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* Acrobat PDFWriter = Printer driver for making PDF documents
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directly. Not free. Available in NU labs.
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* Acrobat Distiller = Adobe software for translating PostScript
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files into PDF files. Not free. Available in NU labs.
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* Acrobat Exchange = Adobe software for modifying PDF files:
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adding/deleting pages, etc. Not free. Available in NU labs.
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Ghostscript: an alternative to Acrobat. There is a freeware
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PostScript interpreter named Ghostscript that allows you to a)
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convert PostScript files to PDF files, and b) turn (unencrypted)
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PDF files back into PostScript.
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by coredog on Saturday June 26, @05:54PM EDT ([144]#222)
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So you would have us ditch one proprietary standard for another?
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PDF is not an open standard administered by ANSI or ISO. It's
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Adobe's to do with what it wills. If you would like the libraries
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to create PDF, you have to fork out dough.
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I think Stallman published something about PDF but I didn't find it.
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David Lawyer
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DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS (Draft 2 [first was 0] )
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We want our documents to be widely accessible, including easy access
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by users of old hardware or the visually impaired. Thus we provide
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our documents in various formats. These include HTML and plain text.
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For high resolution suitable for printed books we provide Postscript
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and ?? PDF ?? formats. Authors write in a SGML markup language which
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can be converted (by computer) to these formats (and more). For
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HOWTOs, authors use either of the SGML languages: LinuxDoc or DocBook.
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The XML markup language is similar to SGML and may be used for
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DocBook. So what is said about SGML also applies to XML. For DocBook
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we currently support versions 3.x and 4.x for SGML and version 4.1.2
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for XML. Documents in LinuxDoc or DocBook formats are "source"
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documents.
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You may see what our source formats look like by downloading a HOWTO
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(in SGML) from an LDP site. We may accept a HOWTO in just plain text
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(or some other format) if we can find someone to manually convert it
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to SGML.
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Besides being able to convert to various formats, SGML allows one to
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label parts of a document to aid in searching and administration. We
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recommend transparent source: plain text (easily editable) with an open
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format. The SGML we use provides this.
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The Guides are generally large, book-sized documents. The preferred
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format is now DocBook although we have accepted them in other formats
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and may continue to do so.
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<li><strong><a name="04266" href="msg04266.html">Re: Manifesto</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Guylhem Aznar <guylhemlistes@ifrance.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04169" href="msg04169.html">Manifesto</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04177" href="msg04177.html">Re: Manifesto</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Guylhem Aznar <guylhemlistes@ifrance.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="04211" href="msg04211.html">Re: Manifesto</a></strong>
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