From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: José Romildo Malaquias To: Matt Ettus Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Packaging OpenJade 1.3 ? Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:52:00 -0000 Message-id: <19991021145422.A30060@urano.iceb.ufop.br> References: <19991021082523.A2690@urano.iceb.ufop.br> <99102109190504.04283@red5.integrinautics.com> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00129.html On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:18:26AM -0700, Matt Ettus wrote: > What is OpenJade? I thought Jade WAS "open"... >From the OpenJade Home Page < http://jade-cvs.avionitek.com/ >: New! OpenJade 1.3. Jade is James Clark's implementation of DSSSL -- Document Style Semantics and Specification Language -- an ISO standard for formatting SGML (and XML) documents. OpenJade is a project undertaken by the DSSSL community to maintain and extend Jade. OpenJade is distributed under the same license as Jade. >From the distribution one can read : What is OpenJade? OpenJade is an implementation of the ISO/IEC 10179:1996 standard DSSSL language. It is based on the James Clark implementation of DSSSL named Jade. OpenJade is now developed and maintained by the OpenJade team. The current version is 1.3. [...] Copyright OpenJade is licensed with almost no restrictions even for commercial use (see license terms). If you do use OpenJade in a commercial product, we ask you, as a courtesy, to acknowledge the use of OpenJade. And yet from the distribution : Contributors James Clark: The father of Jade. James made the first version called Jade. He was instrumental to the idea of a single set of flow objects and multiple backend formats. James carried the Jade project for several years until it became a group project and got renamed OpenJade. He is no longer participating to the OpenJade project but his spirit still and will always remain with us. He created most of the Openjade code and the SGML/XML and the RTF backends. But it is shorter to tell what he didn't do than what he did :-) Matthias Clasen: I am an old-time LaTeX user and a scheme lover. My first jade hacking experience was trying to use dsssl to produce properly formatted indexes, realizing the need for language-dependent string sorting. That code is now part of OpenJade. Since I think that the full power of DSSSL can only be explored with a reasonably complete implementation, I am working to fill the gaps in jade's coverage of the standard. Avi Kivity: I stumbled on Jade after attempts to format SGML documents using C++ proved too cumbersome. I was impressed by the power of DSSSL and the functional programming style, which I hadn't used before. My main interest is fully-integrated backends; that is, formatters which do the layout themselves and do not depend on external layout engines like TeX or Word. I also maintain the CVS repository and perform builds and releases. Didier PH Martin: I encountered Jade simply by browsing to find new ways to process XML/SGML documents. I had to learn it without a book and with minimal documentation. The more I know about this environment the more I learn to appreciate it. This is why, I am a fervant advocate of DSSSL, OpenJade and work hard to provide to members of the OpenJade community, a rich environment, an adequate documentation, a future to this language. After more than 20 years in the computer business, I still enjoy creating and learning. As a canadian member of the ISO Document Description and Processing Languages comittee, my goal is to make a DSSSL-2 possible reality. Peter Nilsson: The man behind braifo. Sebastian Ratz: You have a question about Tex? Sebastian is the right guy to answer to your question. He created the Tex backend processor with David and Kathleen. Kathleen Marszalek: She is the bee, working hard and methodical. She created the Tex and MIF backends with other members of the team. Paul Prescod: Paul has always a good comment to bring to the table. He created the MIF backend with Kathleen. David Megginson: An other fellow canadian that is bringing every day to the XML community ideas, new code, its commitment. He created the Tex backend with Kathleen and Sebastian. Basicaly, James Clark does not have enough time to continue working on Jade, so the OpenJade team was formed to continue Jade development, but now under the name OpenJade. Please, visit the OpenJade (and DSSSL) homepage at: http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL/ to find more information. As I am a novice trying to learn the basics of SGML and DocBook, I am not experienced enough to build an RPM package the OpenJade distribution myself. If you think it is worth and have enough time to provide us with such a package I would be grateful. Thanks. Romildo. > > Thanks > Matt > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > > > Is there (or will be) plans to make RPM packages for > > OpenJade and distribute it with the other docbook-tools? > > The newest version of OpenJade is 1.3 and was release > > this week. See the URL: > > > > > ----------------------- > Matt Ettus > matt@integrinautics.com > 650-833-5619 -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Brasil