From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Oct 3 15:51:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C7D14F0E; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 15:51:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.173]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA739B; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:51:12 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA62887; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:51:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:51:31 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Nik Clayton Cc: Mark Ovens , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun's StarOffice to support DocBook? Message-ID: <19991004005131.L35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990913205548.C2529@marder-1> <19990913211052.D2529@marder-1> <19990913223017.A97095@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19990913223017.A97095@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Old thread revisited] On [19990914 01:45], Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) wrote: >On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> What are the chances we might see StarWriter emerge as the GUI editor >> for DocBook? > >I'd be interested, but I'll believe it when we see it. You see, in order >to do that you'll need some way of pretty printing the DocBook markup >so that (for example) Foo... has the "Foo" >presented in 18pt Times (or whatever) which means stylesheets. > >In order to do this they have three choices -- DSSSL, which is the (or an) >ISO standard for SGML stylesheets. I don't know of anything that >implements DSSSL completely, it's quite a hard problem. > >Or XSL, which is the stylesheet language for XML. Again, I don't know >any commercial product that successfully supports it, let alone a 'free' >one. Norman Walsh now has a beta XSL package. Might this help us a lot? I haven't taken a peek yet, downloaded it though, but that's because of another problem. See my other fun mail ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message