Re: docbook-stylesheets & Christian Leutloff

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 02:15:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:
> > 
> > Mark Galassi has done some RPMs of the same stuff, and they include
> > some things the Debian packages don't (ie. the db2html script).  I'm
> > just working on the Gnome stuff now, and I haven't gotten too far into
> > it - but I think it might require those scripts in order to generate
> > the documentation.
> 
> Mmmh. I looked at the location you gave but was too lazy to download the
> sources/rpms and so on.
> 
> What I think is that db2html stands fot docbook to html, and this will be
> merely a wrapper for easy invocation. In Debian, you use:

....


I just mentioned it because the Gnome folks are shipping Makefiles that
say things like this:


manual-html: gnome-hello/c01.html
manual-ps: gnome-hello.ps
manual-rtf: gnome-hello.rtf
manual-all: manual-html manual-ps manual-rtf

gnome-hello/c01.html: gnome-hello.sgml
        db2html gnome-hello.sgml
        cp $(GNOME_HELLO_GIFS) gnome-hello
gnome-hello.ps: gnome-hello.sgml
        db2ps gnome-hello.sgml
gnome-hello.rtf: gnome-hello.sgml
        db2rtf gnome-hello.sgml


We don't have those scripts - so this Makefile will only work on a
system that has Mark Galassi's scripts (ie. Red Hat).

So we've got to either:

 1) Tell the people not to use Mark's scripts - and while we're at it,
    ask Mark to remove them from his "docbook toolchain" packages so
    nobody else ships code that depends on them.    

 2) Incorporate them into our packages.

 3) Ask Mark to push them upstream to Norm Walsh's modular docbook
    stylesheets.  There might be some resistance to doing so.

 4) Maybe convince Mark to make a tarball of his changes, and base
    the Debian docbook stuff on that.

 5) ???

I don't think this is urgent for me quite yet - it seems like Gnome
0.25 still doesn't build documentation.  But eventually it will.

You might want to check into what is happening with sgml-tools
(a.k.a. linuxdoc) - they are moving to docbook - probably using Mark's
scripts as well.

Cheers,

 - Jim


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