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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:24 -0700
From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd))
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:58:23AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> IMO the tags aren't the problem with DocBook.  It's just *really*
> difficult to get good-looking results with.  I've actually converted
> the FreeBSD book into DocBook (anybody want a perl script?), but jade
> can't format it, and gmat is a real kludge.  Theoretically, DocBook is
> better, but I want something that works.

Hey Greg,

  What's the problem with jade?  I wrote thousands of lines of DSSSL
code for the 2nd Edition Handbook, and I may beto be able to answer
some of your questions.  I will certainly agree that it is difficult
to get good-looking results with jade, but you should at least be able
to format your document and get a valid PostScript file with Norm's
default stylesheets.  Did TeX run out of resources?  Did you bump up
the memory allocation in texmf.cnf?

     - Murray

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