From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 16 17:52:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A83316A482 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:52:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE1143D46 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:52:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C7F75EEF; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (alexis.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 61500-04; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 2173475CAC; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:52:24 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20060616175224.GA57298@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <448E5692.1070105@chuckr.org> <448EC4A6.50808@scls.lib.wi.us> <4491B189.3020201@chuckr.org> <54db43990606151444p58169468l36a66814bc6d8425@mail.gmail.com> <4492DA49.80305@chuckr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4492DA49.80305@chuckr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Subject: Re: formatting tools for Docbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:52:29 -0000 On Fri, Jun 16, 2006, Chuck Robey wrote: >Bob Johnson wrote: > >>On 6/15/06, Chuck Robey wrote: >> >>>Greg Barniskis wrote: >>> >>>> Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> >>>docs, because then no one else would be able to use my documents. Am I >>>wrong in considering the FDP generated documentation as being in that >>>category, not terribly uselful outside the FreeBSD project. >> >> >>I believe you are wrong, or I misunderstand the question. >> >>I haven't used XML DocBook, but I've used DocBook with DSSSL. I >>assume what you are really asking is not whether the FreeBSD >>extensions to the DocBook markup language are a problem (they aren't), >>but whether the stylesheets used by FreeBSD are compatible with those >>on other systems. They are (or they claim to be, as I said I haven't >>actually used the XML/XSL tools yet). >> >Look, how come you won't follow politely formed requests? I've asked >now repeatedly, if you haven't yourself used the XML Docbook tools (not >just Docbook, not just your own private mission statement here) then >please to let this go, not to respond. I wrote that same request to my >very first email. How come you can't react politely to a polite request? I use docbook xml for many things here on a FreeBSD 4.8 system (yeah I know it's out of date, but its uptime is 723 days :-). I'm using the OpenPKG portable packaging system's versions of docbook, openjade, tetex along with docbook-toys from SuSE Linux. docbook-toys is a set of scripts, db2dvi, db2html, db2pdf, etc. which provide simple interfaces to openjade and jadetex. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein