On 07 August 2004 16:46, Sven Panne wrote:
> Not really, but there are no deep technical reasons for this, just a
> lack of
> time. First of all we should agree on the required target formats,
> which should
> be dvi, ps, pdf, and html IMHO. The next thing are the supported
> DocBook XML toolchains, there are quite a few of them:
>
> 1) (open)jade-based ones:
>
> a) Eric Bischoff's docbook2{dvi,ps,pdf,html} tools
>
> b) The DocBook toys db2{dvi,ps,pdf,html}
>
> 2) XSLT-based ones:
>
> a) xmlto, a wrapper around xsltproc
>
> b) pure xsltproc / saxon / xalan
>
> 3) XSLT/FO-based ones (needs some support from 2), too):
>
> a) PassiveTeX
>
> There are of course a lot more tools out there, but not all can
> generate all needed formats or are heavily specialized (like
> meinproc). Option 2b) is too fragile IMHO, because one would have to
> specify a lot of paths, options etc., which will be too tricky to get
> working reliably. Option 3a) doesn't really offer an improvement over
> the rest, only an additional tool is required for building, so it's
> not really the way to go currently.
>
> So I propose the following: Let autoconf find out which toolchain is
> supported (docbook2foo, db2foo, or xmlto) and make our conversion
> scripts a simple wrapper around it, no need for the current CATALOG
> fiddling at all. The SGML docs are almost XML already, so let's
> change this, too, and nuke all SGML support from fptools.
Sounds fine to me, as long as we still have wide enough tool support
i.e. currently most Linux and *BSD distributions have a working SGML
toolchain either out-of-the-box or by installing a port, I don't want to
go back to a situation where installing the doc tools is a challenge in
itself.
Also - we currently have the ability to fiddle with the stylesheet
settings ourselves. Would we lose that?
> If nobody yells, I'll make the necessary changes for the HEAD. But
> first I'll have to finish Doom 3, of course... >:-)
Glad to see you've still got your priorities straight ;-)
Cheers,
Simon
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