From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bischoff To: docbook-utils@bazar.conectiva.com.br Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: New docbook-tools packages Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <3992B97C.7E794D2E@cybercable.tm.fr> References: <76aeemtlxh.fsf@odie.lanl.gov> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00316.html Hi all, The DocBook-tools have been repackaged at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/new-trials They have been becoming more and more stable since Mark's latest announcement. Hopefully we will move them to "docware" directory soon. 1) Changes ---------- Changes to the external packages: - Stylesheets: 1.44 => 1.54 - DTD: was 3.0 and 3.1, added DocBook 4.0 and 4.1, one can install only the one(s) he/shee needs - jadetex: 2.7 => 2.20 Changes to the docbook-utils: - modularity: separated o the input format drivers o the main program o the output format drivers (one could even use another frontend than DocBook!) - support for man and info output - auto-detection of the needed catalogs - stabilized autoconf/automake support initiated by Mark (thanks a million times). As a side effect, the doc (man and info pages) builds with a simple "make -f Makefile.cvs" at tarball generation time - docbook-utils.dsl is now used as the default style sheet. It's like cygnus-common.dsl in the old docbook-tools, but with the following advantages: o you can use your own customized stylesheet if you don't like this one o your stylesheet does not need rely on HTML and PRINT entities o you can use Norm's stuff "out of the box" - new sgmldiff script (useful to see if a translation of a docbook file respects the markup) New package: perl-SGMLSpm 1.03ii Every package has been made conformant to the LSB proposal for SGML/XML 2) Kown problems ---------------- Jadetex 2.20 seems to require to update "hyperref" package on old distros. I'm still investigating this with Sebastian Rahtz' help. In the meantime, both jadetex 2.7 and jadetex 2.20 are provided. Those new packages are only for i386 and ppc architectures at the time being, and only for Linux RPM-based systems with a RedHat-compatible directory tree structure. They rebuild easily on other platforms (they auto-detect the directory tree, they are linked statically, etc...), so please rebuild them and send them to distributions maintainers if you have the time to do that. For example, Caldera packages are already available on Caldera's FTP mirrors. The psgml binary package for i386 is a bit outdated. It shouldn't change a lot of things. Any volunteer please rebuild it on an intel machine with RedHat-compatible directory tree. 3) Miscellaneous ---------------- Not done yet: Mark Johnson's proposal to support XML in psgml all that is in the TODO list If you would like to participate to the development of the docbook-utils package, please subscribe to docbook-utils@bazar.conectiva.com.br (there's another list for the development of the DocBook-tools distribution). -- Éric Bischoff - mailto:ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr __________________________________________________ \^o~_. .~. ______ /( __ ) /V\ Toys story \__ \/ ( V // \\ \__| (__=v /( )\ |\___/ ) ^^-^^ \_____( ) Tux Konqui \__=v __________________________________________________