On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Guten Tag Kurt Pfeifle,
>
> am Dienstag, 11. November 2003 um 00:04 schrieben Sie:
>
> KP> Hi, all --
>
> KP> this is a really great initiative. Please keep us informed about your
> KP> progress!
>
> We will do as this project grows ...
>
> KP> One little question: are you aware that the *sources* of all English
> KP> Samba documentation are now DocBook/XML? Have you considered to write
> KP> the docu (or maybe convert it at a later stage) into that format?
>
> KP> I know that DocBook/XML is rather difficult for people who are not used
> KP> to it and it makes them slow down a lot. (I myself haven't written my
> KP> part of the HOWTO Collection in XML. but in HTML and one kind soul did
> KP> convert it for me). However, it makes it more easy to create PDFs and
> KP> other formats from that input.
>
> We talked to John H Terpstra and he told us that he would take the
> part of converting to XML (I hope it still is like that ;-) )

I would of course prefer if you could provide your files in XML.
I do not know when I will get time to convert html or text to XML, I'll do
it some time, but you would save me about 1 day of work per chapter if you
can provide files in XML.

- John T.

>
> So we can happily use our little crappy html-editors and concentrate
> at translating english-german instead of converting html-xml.
>
> Thanks for your point!
>
> KP> Thanks again and Cheers!
> KP> Kurt
>
> You´re welcome.
>
> Stefan G. Weichinger
>
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John H Terpstra
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