Re: (docbook-tools) Re: db* does it serve the purpose

[Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br>]

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On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:58:02PM -0500, Eric Bischoff 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.

It's the best way. Having defaults that are usually correct is the
best thing that can happen with a tool. :-)

> 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 :-(.

Again you can use the other calls as wrappers... Nothing is broken,
then. 

> "--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 ?

Usually only one is installed. Openjade's options are exactly the same
as Jade's but it supports more output formats (such as MIF, whatever
it is). 

> "--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 ?

I don't see why having another stylesheet just to avoid chunks. In
jade you can say: jade ... -V nochunks ... and it will be interpreted
the same way as having (define nochunks #t) on your stylesheet. It can
only be true or false... 

> 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.

:-)

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