From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jochem Huhmann To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Cc: sgml-tools@via.ecp.fr, nik@freebsd.org, ke@suse.de, srivasta@debian.org, aph@debian.org, sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de Subject: Announce: DocBook tools mailing list Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00122.html [I've also send this to a bunch of related lists and a few individuals. Sorry if you receive it more than once.] Though SGML and especially the DocBook-DTD is used for more and more documentation on Linux and other free Unices, the infrastructure for processing DocBook is different on most systems. Most Linux distributions are using homegrown wrapper scripts, documentation writers often use Makefiles (which often work just on their own systems). Getting DocBook SGML rendered to readable or printable formats is often hairy on a given system, even if the necessary tools (like jade and DSSSL-stylesheets) are installed, because the catalog, stylesheets etc. are hidden at the strangest places. So some standards for file locations and/or a defined interface would make things much simpler for package maintainers, developers and users. There is a new mailinglist to discuss this topic. If you are packaging (or using) DocBook (or more generally SGML-) applications on some Linux distribution (or *BSD) or just want to share comments and insight you are invited to subscribe to this list. Eric Bischoff, who is working on DocBook support for Caldera and KDE, already has done some work based on the docbook-tools from Mark Galassi, so there is already some code to play with ;-) To subscribe: Send a message to docbook-tools-subscribe@bazar.conectiva.com.br - you will get a confirmation message, just reply to it. To unsubscribe: Send a message to docbook-tools-unsubscribe@bazar.conectiva.com.br and reply to the confirmation message or (in a slower way) write to Jorge Godoy , who has set up this list. List address: docbook-tools@bazar.conectiva.com.br