Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-31 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Poet/Joshua Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | OpenDocs publishing is considering publishing the 2.02 version of DocBook | the Definitive Guide. Please don't. The 2.0.2 version is entirely unready for print publication: it's a work in progress, slowly making a transformation from an

Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-31 Thread Poet/Joshua Drake
Hello, Fair enough --- but understand that would would edit it ;) J On 31 Oct 2001, Norman Walsh wrote: / Poet/Joshua Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | OpenDocs publishing is considering publishing the 2.02 version of DocBook | the Definitive Guide. Please don't. The 2.0.2 version

RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-30 Thread Kaiser Christian (SV SC RS T33)
I 'read' the print, use the on-line for quick search/reference. REgards DaveP This is what I think, I wouldn't use the reference within a hardcopy, but read the other content when having no screen in front of me. I would buy it, Chris

RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-29 Thread Phillip Shelton
impression of DocBook if it were hardcopy. -Original Message- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 4:37 To: Phillip Shelton; 'Poet/Joshua Drake'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book? At 10:49 29/10/2001 +1000

Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-26 Thread Stephen Rasku
Joshua Drake wrote: What are the main differences between it and the existing O'Reilly Duck Book? The current OReilly book covers 3.x of DocBook the new book covers 4.x. We would also add a couple of chapters on HOWTO type stuff. If there was more information on customizing DSSSL stylesheets,

Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?

2001-10-26 Thread Gregory Leblanc
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 19:06, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote: Hello, OpenDocs publishing is considering publishing the 2.02 version of DocBook the Definitive Guide. We have talked with OReilly and they are o.k. with us publishing it (it is GFDL). My question is; would you buy it? Is it useful?