db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?

db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?

[Gregory Leblanc]

I've been playing around with DocBook and writing some basic documents in
it, and I hear a lot about db2something, which I'm assuming referrs to the
Cygnus tools.  I've also heard of some people using SGMLTools v2, but there
seem to be far fewer people using these.  What else is there for free or
non-free tools, and which ones are giving the best results for HTML and (at
least as importantly), plain text?  Thanks,
	Greg

Re: db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?

[Jorge Godoy]

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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:05:23AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I've been playing around with DocBook and writing some basic documents in
> it, and I hear a lot about db2something, which I'm assuming referrs to the
> Cygnus tools.  I've also heard of some people using SGMLTools v2, but there
> seem to be far fewer people using these.  What else is there for free or
> non-free tools, and which ones are giving the best results for HTML and (at
> least as importantly), plain text?  Thanks,

Greg,

I've made some wrappers and a Makefile for dealing with standard
DocBook tools. I'll be packaging them soon (RPM and, of course,
SRPM). I can send them to you. They are commented out in Portuguese,
but when I package them they'll have comments in English and a
"README" :-)

I don't use Cygnus tools (don't ask me why :-)). 


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Re: db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?

[Horacio MG]

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> I've made some wrappers and a Makefile for dealing with standard
> DocBook tools. I'll be packaging them soon (RPM and, of course,
> SRPM). I can send them to you. They are commented out in Portuguese,
> but when I package them they'll have comments in English and a
> "README" :-)

Hi, could you send me a tarball of the sources, please?  (no rpms)

> I don't use Cygnus tools (don't ask me why :-)). 

I'd like to ask why though.


TIA

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Re: db2??????? vs. SGMLTools2 vs. what else?

[Jorge Godoy]

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 08:54:15AM +0100, Horacio MG wrote:
> > I've made some wrappers and a Makefile for dealing with standard
> > DocBook tools. I'll be packaging them soon (RPM and, of course,
> > SRPM). I can send them to you. They are commented out in Portuguese,
> > but when I package them they'll have comments in English and a
> > "README" :-)
> 
> Hi, could you send me a tarball of the sources, please?  (no rpms)

Sure... I'll do that. I'm starting today (I'm stuck with some
projects, and I'll do this and go back to them). 

> > I don't use Cygnus tools (don't ask me why :-)). 
> 
> I'd like to ask why though.

Mainly because of don't knowing they existed and, then, because of
their standard appearance. I like to have control of what's
happening. In many cases, a script is better than an executable
because of that: you know what's happening and you can change it.

Regards,
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