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From: David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>
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On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Doug White wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, David Nugent wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a nice, concise description of the Linuxdoc DTD they'd
>> be willing to share? I'm after a list of tags, the basic structural
>> syntax supported via the various document types (and a list of those as
>> well).
>
>/usr/share/handbook/*.sgml 
>
>That's what I did.  :-)

Well, sure, and so did I to some extent. But it still involves a
lot of time consuming guess-work. :-(


>BTW, The linuxdoc DTD is on it's way out.  At last check, the project is
>considering going over to the docbook (sp?) format, which is much better
>designed for electronic conversion.  

Ok, got that from ora. Looks good - and the documentation looks
excellent, installation easy.

Anyone got transpecs for its entities, or working on one (even an 
alpha/beta would help - I'd help with debugging it :))? Or is
this still on the todo list?


David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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