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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:58:17 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Where is FreeBSD going?
Message-ID:  <20040108194843.L32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <xzp65fm5of9.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes:
> > In the case of the FDP, I think there's an extra problem: the source
> > language of the documentation is too complex for a project without
> > paid grunt workers.
>
> Anyone who is reasonably familiar with HTML can learn enough DocBook
> to contribute to the FDP in a matter of minutes.  There is also
> excellent documentation on DocBook online - see for instance:
>
>   http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/
>

it should be possible to tweak the docbook oputput xslt filter in
openoffice to output something that is 90%+ ready for fdp, assuming you
just want first time editing and not roundtripping (fdp is still sgml,
makes massive use of entities, etc).

> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
>



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