From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Derek Simkowiak To: Jason Molenda Cc: Eric Bischoff , docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com, kde-docbook@kde.org Subject: Re: Docbook tools Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:02:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <19990906224311.A9774@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00069.html > > I was planning to package all this stuff all together - exactly what > > you have done at Cygnus. > > Just to be clear on this point, all the credit for the DocBook packages > should go to Mark Galassi, not Cygnus. Mark: THANK YOU! Before finding these packages, I hunted all over for various packages which contained the DocBook DTD, the SGMLtools files, jade, other stuff from Oasis, and even some custom in-house stuff from O'Reilly&Associates. Finding these packages was a godsend--not to mention the tutorial (I'm a newbie at this). These packages are already linked from the http://developer.gnome.org , and now it looks like they will become the "standard" packages for the KDE team. Also, I will tell my editor at O'Reilly about this and they're likely to become the defacto for O'Reilly authors who want to write in SGML/DocBook. In case it's still not clear: the work Mark is doing is incredibly important and will become even moreso as more people start to write Gnome, KDE, and O'Reilly documentation in SGML format. > He has decided to keep maintaining them even though he has left Cygnus > (he's now off playing rocket scientist :-). If it's not inappropriate to ask... what's the "rocket scientist" project? Something cool Mark can talk about? --Derek