Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > "Laszlo (Laca) Peter" wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:34 -0400, Dave Miner wrote: [snip] > > The /usr/bin/man rewrite project needs these stylesheets > > (/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/), otherwise it can't handle > > some kinds of manpages (e.g. DocBook/SolBook). > > But if all the man pages on the LiveCD are in nroff format, that shouldn't > be a problem, right? (Most Solaris man pages ship in nroff format now, > having been pre-translated from the XML/SGML during the build phase.)
Right... but we desperately try to get rid of the "intermediate" nroff format (e.g. we try to get direct DocBook--->plaintext conversion and not a huge chain of transformations) since it causes some ugly problems (e.g. wrong transliteration of symbols (you can see this if you use the japanese manual pages), ruined tables, missing text segments (e.g. in <example></example> sections), wrong wrapping of lines etc.). That's one of the reasons why we actually want to do this (the other one is maintainability - /usr/bin/man&co. are currently binary wrappers around some shell scripts and pipelines and the whole thing can be written shorter, faster and easier to maintain with a pure shell script). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
