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<li><em>To</em>: Cees de Groot <<A HREF="mailto:cg@cdegroot.com">cg@cdegroot.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Yet another question </li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Luis Villa <<A HREF="mailto:liv@duke.edu">liv@duke.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:26:57 -0400 (EDT)</li>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Cees de Groot wrote:
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> liv@duke.edu said:
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> > 3) Why is <Rant> not a DocBook tag? Seriously... I had always assumed
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> > (when I heard that the LDP was switching from LinuxDoc to DocBook)
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> > that that went that DocBook had a well developed set of tools to work
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> > with, just like LinuxDoc.
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> We've tried at the SGMLtools project, but there was lack of interest to help
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> out making it better. In the meantime, apparently the net.gods at the LDP
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> decided to help further yet another toolkit around DocBook (I presume these
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> are based on Mark Galassi's scripts). Splitting up prematurely doesn't seem to
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> be an optimal way to get good tools, or to get stylesheet modifications
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> widespread....
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> [history: when we wanted to convert from Linuxdoc to DocBook with SGMLtools, I
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> spent a lot of time looking for existing stuff. Mark's scripts already
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> existed, but - at least at that time - they were a bunch of quick hacks to get
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> things going. So we designed a clean Python shell from scratch and repeatedly
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> invited everyone to join in, tried to persuade the LDP to switch to DocBook,
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> but I cannot remember ever getting much response. I'm not fingerpointing,
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> people were probably all too busy, but it surely has been a heck of a missed
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> change]
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That's unfortunate. The old sgmltools were excellent, and the new ones
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(while not perfect) are a damn sight better than jade and such. Good
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luck... maybe once I finish my thesis I'll be able to help out.
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Luis
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