Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:24 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)) Message-ID: <20020729000024.D7467@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20020722002823.GB69834@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:58:23AM %2B0930 References: <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com> <82745.1027266137@critter.freebsd.dk> <20020722002823.GB69834@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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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