Red Hat sgml-tools vs. DocBook

Red Hat sgml-tools vs. DocBook

[Peter Toft]

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

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Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pto@sslug.dk] http://www.sslug.dk/~pto

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Re: Red Hat sgml-tools vs. DocBook

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Peter Toft wrote:

> 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 (version 1) is the old set of tools to make a
linuxdoc SGML file into pretty much everything else. But it was just
restricted to that. (I guess some would call it a dino. But I just happen
to think differently about the origin of species.)

Hugo.

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