From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Leblanc To: Alan "W. Irwin" Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <9a19b6001cedac1a9e964e4343c44b43@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> References: X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00424.html > That said, you have been a good advocate for emacs/psgml (and so was my > partner in the project) so I will probably try it next time, but I don't > regret for a moment doing my first DocBook project this simple and > straightforward way. I seem to learn the best if I solve problems with > low-end tools to start, and then move on up to more sophisticated tools > later on. YMMV, of course. I dove into psgml when I first started writing, and it was a really nice learning tool, especially combined with the templates that the GNOME Doc Project has. I've since become one of the most knowledgeable docbook people actively involved in that project. > This has been an interesting discussion about methods and perhaps even > valuable as well, but I sure wish I could get as quick a response on this > list to the practical problem of Cygnus pdfjadetex not working in the > latest release. I've gotten around this the easy way, I don't use pdfjadetex. Instead, I use a tool called htmldoc, which convers from HTML to PS/PDF, and does a VERY nice job at it. The only thing that's missing is that it doesn't convert the external (href) hyperlinks to something useful along the way. I can do this with jade, but jade is slow. Greg From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Leblanc To: Alan "W. Irwin" Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: <9a19b6001cedac1a9e964e4343c44b43@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00065.html Message-ID: <20001206093900.1EFkjA83MVEt80I2_Sbb6ZKqxbGTe0X-pfnwEHg85RA@z> > That said, you have been a good advocate for emacs/psgml (and so was my > partner in the project) so I will probably try it next time, but I don't > regret for a moment doing my first DocBook project this simple and > straightforward way. I seem to learn the best if I solve problems with > low-end tools to start, and then move on up to more sophisticated tools > later on. YMMV, of course. I dove into psgml when I first started writing, and it was a really nice learning tool, especially combined with the templates that the GNOME Doc Project has. I've since become one of the most knowledgeable docbook people actively involved in that project. > This has been an interesting discussion about methods and perhaps even > valuable as well, but I sure wish I could get as quick a response on this > list to the practical problem of Cygnus pdfjadetex not working in the > latest release. I've gotten around this the easy way, I don't use pdfjadetex. Instead, I use a tool called htmldoc, which convers from HTML to PS/PDF, and does a VERY nice job at it. The only thing that's missing is that it doesn't convert the external (href) hyperlinks to something useful along the way. I can do this with jade, but jade is slow. Greg