From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochem Huhmann To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: (docbook-tools) Re: db* does it serve the purpose Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <00022612310000.03037@localhost.localdomain> <20000228083454.L30500@conectiva.com.br> <38BAFD7A.9D78AF96@cybercable.tm.fr> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00112.html * Eric Bischoff wrote: > Having "db --format=html" or "db2html" is almost the same > (less letters in the second one). If there is a big > pressure, I will merge db2html, db2pdf, db2rtf and db2ps > together, but this will result in an incompatibility with > previous docbook-tools :-(. You could symlink "db" to "db2html" and such, than look at $0 to see how the script was called and act accordingly. SuSE does it this way too. A single script seems to make sense to me, since it's just simpler to hack on. > "--converter" flag seems more interesting to implement. I > must admit that I don't know openjade. It's a kind of > rewriting of Jade, no ? Can someone explain me in private > how you call it usually ? (executable name, are options > names and semantics identical to jade ?) Users normally only > use only one out of them, no ? > > "--nochunk" looks suspicious to me. Isn't it something you > are supposed to cusstomize through an alternate stylesheet ? > Then you would better use "db2html --dsl nochunk.dsl", no ? Well, if this wrappers are meant for DocBook with jade only, one could stay with "--nochunk", I think. "--dsl nochunk.dsl" is more generic but also more verbose. That's not far away from calling jade directly anymore. Maybe just supply "--nochunk" as a shortcut? > I have been sending the new db2* scripts to the connectiva > list. If people feel like hacking them, why not ? Or they > can give suggestions that I will implement. I've some trouble with my email adresses right now, so I haven't subscribed to the new list yet (and I haven't got around to post the list announcement, too - tommorow). If you could put the new scripts on ftp somewhere? I could offer some space if necessary, just upload them to ftp.revier.com/incoming and I set up a cron-job for moving them to a directory accessible for anon-ftp (say /pub/sgml/scripts/). Jochem -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!