From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David C. Mason" To: ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Docbook tools Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 08:21:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00059.html Eric Bischoff writes: > - It is indeed a very good idea to use RPM packages for those using > RedHat-based > systems (I am one, I am using LinuxPPC for Macintosh ;-) ). What is > the reason > for putting both the 3.0 version and the 3.1 version of the DocBook > DTD in > the RPM archive? It makes the file bigger. > It is unfair to compare a system like RPM to tar.gz or other archiving/compression formats. RPMs *add* functionality, thus sometimes larger files. Mark is working on other packages. > - Have you encountered the same problems we have encountered with > non-English > languages and the TeX backend ? We did not manage to make the Babel > package > work with French, and we still feel very unsecure about Corean, > Chinese (all > encodings), Greek and Russian. We also would love to switch to > Unicode encoding > for all non-latin languages. Have you already any experience about > that ? > This is actually a problem with TeX itself. The French style file (french.sty) now has some major licensing issues thanks to its creator changing the license. The file was removed from the CTAN repository and it breaks things like jadetex that still try to call it. This should be fixed in Mark's latest version but you might find older versions still rely on the style file. As you might guess, this is bad news for anyone who wants to write French documents and use TeX but as long as they want to agree to the new license they can still use it. I would recommend French users to make html with a big juicy note as to why there is no PostScript or TeX files. As to the CKVJ languages, there is now support for Japanese in DocBook but you will need to write language files for other languages. These files are part of the Stylesheets and are really quite easy to write as long as you have someone who knows the language. TeX should be able to handle the CKVJ languages fine, I don't know about Greek. Russian works fine but make sure you have the latest stylesheets as there is a new ISOcryl(or whatever its called) file in there. Norman Walsh can speak to this a little better than me. Good Luck, its great to see you guys moving to DocBook, this is a great step for your project and mine(GNOME) to start sharing things like a help browser backend. Cheers, Dave