From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: madhu To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Cc: docbook-tools@bazar.conectiva.com.br Subject: db* does it serve the purpose Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <00022612310000.03037@localhost.localdomain> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00107.html hi for the last couple of day's there is healthy discussion going on this list well here's is my $2 bit a) as a user should i be worrying about tweaking the scripts whether be it db2html or dbk or David's dbnochunk or for that matter forthcoming eric's Db and not to forget howto to install Norman's stylesheets and also the forthcoming Docbook DTD's . whew that is one hell of a list b) The irony of it all is this is regarding tools which is supposed to make our documents better and easier to maintain c) as i see it all these tools must have its origin in the fact the authors would have resorted to it only to ease their pain but not neccessarily useful to others also the surprising thing why none of the distro's have looked at it from user space .What i want is something is like this i enter at prompt $ Db everybody and it asks me $TARGET and i enter $ *.sgm/sgml or *.xml and it asks $ FORMAT I enter $HTML OR PDF or whatever supported output format it asks $STYLESHEETS I enter $path to normans stylesheets (this eliminates the hassle of installing questions ;-) and also probably this CATALOG business) it asks $CONVERTER (this should end jade vs openjade ) i enter $ jade or openjade it says $ CHUNK/NOCHUNK i say $ what is appropriate to me it says $ Please wait ............. bingo $error ;-) or i get my out put this should relieve a lot of people of headaches is it wishful thinking or people have valid reason not getting this done .i mean this will as a user who is interested in furthering use of SGML/XML in varous application and spend more quality time with DTD's and styesheets and improving them ,shuoldn,t i stop worrying about what scripts .isnt this the same concern of david when he was talking about one more DB unmaintained or i misunderstood him . can somebody enlighten me on this thank you in advance regards -- maddy ********************************************************************************************** "There the eye goes not;Speech goes not,nor the mind. We know not,we understand not;How one would teach it" **********************************************************************************************