From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 15 6:16:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A2D37B6A9 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 06:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA19968; Mon, 15 May 2000 15:15:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12rKhu-0005SA-00 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 15:14:50 +0200 Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:14:50 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Including non-DocBook documents in the tree Message-ID: <20000515151450.A17589@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: doc@freebsd.org References: <20000512142823.B1091@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000512142823.B1091@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 02:28:23PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 02:28:23PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > handle turning the docs in to other formats where possible -- some formats > we might ignore, because it might not be feasible to do it (html2pdf? No > idea if it's a solved problem or not). Ignoring formats would be a wrong way to go IMHO. (and not just becuase if our docs support PS, there isn't much trouble in making a printed book out of it:-) One of the strenghts of this project has been the tightly-knit integrated document conversion system. (Save for layouting, it could even be used to produce a newspaper both in print and on the web from the same article sources, for example) I think we should retain this for as long as is possible. With that said, my ideas for this interim period: - Submission is: HTML. - Output is: ASCII. HTML->script to strip tags. LaTeX HTML->html2latex from ports (less than perfect) PDF HTML->html2latex->dvi->dvipdfm PS HTML->html2latex->dvi->dvips or html2ps from ports - Submission is: LaTeX. - output is: ASCII .tex->detex from ports PS, PDF: see above HTML: latex2html from ports. - Submission is: ASCII Well, in this case there is no workaround, I think. Someone needs to mark it up somehow. However, I am thinking what this would mean to translators and whetether in this way we could retain the flexible modular document structure that is in place now, because I'm afraid those docs will be sitting around there for a while in their "interim" stage.... but I am not the person to comment on this so I am just thinking... BTW I think we are pretty much the forerunners of this among free software projects, so we are on our own, kinda... Sorry for bothering! Cheers: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message