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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:37:14 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Debian Touts Integrated SGML Environment
Message-ID:  <19990426223714.A99719@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <3724D23B.1D611284@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 02:53:15PM -0600
References:  <199904260044.UAA29261@bellsouth.net> <19990426195453.A75845@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <3724D23B.1D611284@softweyr.com>

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On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 02:53:15PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> Nik Clayton wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 08:44:25PM -0400, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
> > > At least that's the title of a page on the Debian website, dated Mar 30, 99.
> > 
> > Got a URL?
> 
> 	http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990330

Cheers.

> It only took two clicks to find it, not a difficult search.

Good-oh.  Next time my modem link's up at the same time as I'm reading
mail I'll check things like this first.

> > As a general note; while the db2html scripts and such like might be quite
> > useful to the absolute novice, I don't see the Doc. Proj. using them when
> > converting the DocBook documents to other formats.
> > 
> > This is partly because the mechanism we have at the moment works nicely,
> > and follows the BSD tradition.  It's also because I don't want to add yet
> > another program (Python) that people need to have installed before they
> > think they can useful contribute documentation.
> 
> And your tool is?  Make, I assume?  ;^)

Yep.  c.f., doc/share/mk/docproj.docbook.mk and doc/en/handbook/Makefile.

N
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