Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 16:04:11 -0500 (EST) From: <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: stanislav shalunov <shalunov@att.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sgmlfmt: producing text files Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908031550500.387-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199908031948.PAA11536@tuzik.lz.att.com>
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, stanislav shalunov wrote: > Question: What about producing LaTeX output? I would very much prefer > to have LaTeX formatting to the shitty paragraphs produced by groff > (no offense to groff, but TeX paragraph formatting and hyphenation > algorithms are just much better). LaTeX was the original output for print but at one point the SGML tools were included in FreeBSD and thus couldn't have any outlandish dependencies like TeX. During that conversion to groff, I developed an intense dislike for groff and I hope never to use it again. Anyhow, if there are not lingering LaTeX transpec files in the current sgmlformat package, I believe they may exist in some earlier incarnations. Alas, they are not quite as featureful as the groff versions and the processing procedure is a bit more awkward, but as you say, TeX is much better at typesetting. Generally, a better route is to convert from linuxdoc to docbook and use jade plus Norm Walsh's DSSSL stylesheets for docbook. If you use the instant(1) program by hand, there should be a transpec file that will do a quick-and-dirty linuxdoc to docbook conversion. It requires some manual cleanup but it does quite a bit of the work. > Seems like the script was last updated a lo-o-ong time ago, do you > still support it? Not if I can help it. I pretty much do all my SGML formatting with Jade and DSSSL stylesheets. (And to be honest, I don't even have a FreeBSD machine at the moment...my work is almost entirely solaris and I've recently switched to solaris at home to make life more consistent.) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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