From: Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk>
To: <docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Cc: "esr@thyrsus.com" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
Greg Hankins <greg.hankins@cc.gatech.edu>,
Cees de Groot <cg@pobox.com>
Subject: Red Hat sgml-tools vs. DocBook
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104222243510.4069-100000@pto.sslug> (raw)
Friends
I don't remember history here - first there were the
dinos, then came man, after that the computer ...
No really - On my Red Hat 7.0 box I have an RPM-package
sgml-tools as well as my faithful DocBook tools. It
seems that they originate from two SGML-branches or
alike (they are not connected).
The sgml-tools package contains (more files than):
/usr/bin/rtf2rtf
/usr/bin/sgml2html
/usr/bin/sgml2info
/usr/bin/sgml2latex
/usr/bin/sgml2lyx
/usr/bin/sgml2rtf
/usr/bin/sgml2txt
/usr/bin/sgmlcheck
/usr/bin/sgmlpre
/usr/bin/sgmlsasp
/usr/bin/sgmltools.v1
/usr/lib/entity-map
/usr/lib/entity-map/0.1.0
...
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/catalog
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/common
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/deprec96
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/html32.dtd
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/isoent
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/linuxdoc.dtd
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/linuxdoc96.dtd
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/linuxdoc97.dtd
/usr/lib/sgml-tools/dtd/qwertz.dtd
...
From what I can read the sgml-tools are not the same as
DocBook, but it seems to be close to it. What happened?
Or is it just be who thinks that the two things are
related :-)
My followup main-question regards the sgml2latex -
anyone who knows whether a DocBook->Latex converter
exists? I really like to have one, since making books
is a problem. The HTML-output is a web-format - no good
for printing. The print-formats PS/PDF are not great in
two-column format (e.g. tabels suck), hence it sure
would be great to do DocBook->Latex and hack the Latex
code the final step to something which could be
printed.
I guess that I will start making a "db2latex" at some
point, if it does not exist... and should it be made
from sgml2latex?
Best
--
Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto
Linux!, because reboots are only for *kernel* upgrades!
--- Sid Young
next reply other threads:[~2001-04-22 13:57 UTC|newest]
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2001-04-22 13:57 Peter Toft [this message]
2001-04-22 14:07 ` Hugo van der Kooij
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