From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Toft To: Cc: "esr@thyrsus.com" , Greg Hankins , Cees de Groot Subject: Red Hat sgml-tools vs. DocBook Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:57:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00020.html 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