From: Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br>
To: madhu <b_maddy_016@yahoo.com>
Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com,
docbook-tools@bazar.conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: db* does it serve the purpose
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 11:55:59AM +0530, madhu wrote:
> 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
That's what we are concerned too.
> b) The irony of it all is this is regarding tools which is supposed to make
> our documents better and easier to maintain
Documents maintenance is a separate philosophy. I agree that having an
easy way to use them is one of the things that we must look at.
> 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
No "distro" has looked at it from user space because it's something
new. I thinks it's borning now, since the use of SGMLtools "died" when
the project was abandoned. Now it has a new maintainer.
> 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)
CATALOGs exists so that you don't need this step. ;-) The tools are
clever enough to use the right stylesheet.
> 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
But it asks too many questions. We'd also to have GNU syntax:
$ DB --format=html --converter=openjade --nochunk everybody.sgml
It's very interesting for automating conversions. You "*.sgml" would
become:
for i in *.sgml do
DB --format=html --converter=openjade --nochunk $i
done
> 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
You got the point. People are, now, concerned with the DTD: it's
resources and it's stylesheets presentation. When it's "beautiful" and
with enough features them they'll look at the way people are
working. We are doing what we can with what we know: I'm not a DTD
hacker, so I'm hacking a way to easy the use of the DTD.
--
Godoy. <godoy@conectiva.com.br>
Setor de Publicações
Publishing Department Conectiva S.A.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-27 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-27 6:36 madhu
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Mark Galassi
2000-12-27 6:36 ` madhu
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jorge Godoy [this message]
2000-12-27 6:36 ` (docbook-tools) " Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` madhu
[not found] ` <38BC0BF9.1E8F29B8@cybercable.tm.fr>
2000-12-27 6:36 ` --parser and --nochunks are available madhu
2000-12-27 6:36 ` man page for docbook-utils scripts Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` --parser and --nochunks are available Jorge Godoy
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Edward C. Bailey
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jorge Godoy
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Mark Galassi
2000-12-27 6:36 ` (docbook-tools) Re: db* does it serve the purpose Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jorge Godoy
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Jochem Huhmann
2000-12-27 6:36 ` Eric Bischoff
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