From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: madhu To: docbook-tools@bazar.conectiva.com.br Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: (docbook-tools) Re: db* does it serve the purpose Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <00022823241302.01946@localhost.localdomain> References: <00022612310000.03037@localhost.localdomain> <20000228083454.L30500@conectiva.com.br> <38BAFD7A.9D78AF96@cybercable.tm.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00113.html hi On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Jorge Godoy wrote: > > But it asks too many questions. We'd also to have GNU syntax: > > > > $ DB --format=html --converter=openjade --nochunk everybody.sgml > > This is the philosophy I'm trying to implement. db2html > already has 5 different conversion flags. Most of them use > defaults that you don't need to redefine for a normal basic > use, so usually "db2html mydoc.sgml" is enough. so far Db2html2 as i call them looks fine see my report for additional information > > Having "db --format=html" or "db2html" is almost the same > (less letters in the second one). If there is a big > pressure, I will merge db2html, db2pdf, db2rtf and db2ps > together, but this will result in an incompatibility with > previous docbook-tools :-(. aw god no that is ten dogs in a circle ,one moves all of them move i atleast think it is not a good idea .harder to debug and you will agian have atleast two more commands extra > "--converter" flag seems more interesting to implement. I > must admit that I don't know openjade. It's a kind of > rewriting of Jade, no ? Can someone explain me in private > how you call it usually ? (executable name, are options > names and semantics identical to jade ?) Users normally only > use only one out of them, no ? as a choice it ls nice to have it though i personally have'nt used it much > "--nochunk" looks suspicious to me. Isn't it something you > are supposed to cusstomize through an alternate stylesheet ? > Then you would better use "db2html --dsl nochunk.dsl", no ? it is worth having a look at Davids script which used to do a good job ,i think i have it somewhere but i am not sure .david should be able to help i think it is called "dbnochunks" or something > I have been sending the new db2* scripts to the connectiva > list. If people feel like hacking them, why not ? Or they > can give suggestions that I will implement. done but why nothing for XML sgml2xml is there but then it writes to stdout but no output file as far as i know or maybe i dont know how to do it can somebody educate me on this > -- > Éric Bischoff - mailto:ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr thank you regards -- maddy ********************************************************************************************** "There the eye goes not;Speech goes not,nor the mind. We know not,we understand not;How one would teach it" **********************************************************************************************