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Re: Bug#533872: ITP: sdop -- Simple DocBook Processor



On 2009-06-21 Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 10:05:34 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> > * Package name    : sdop
> >   Version         : 0.52
> >   Upstream Author : Philip Hazel
> > * License         : GPLv2+
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description     : Simple DocBook Processor
> >
> > SDoP (Simple DocBook Processor) reads a DocBook XML file, processes it
> > into typeset pages, and outputs the result as PostScript (which can
> > easily be converted to a PDF). It is "simple" because it supports only
> > a subset of DocBook, and also because it does not make use of a DTD or
> > stylesheets or any other heavyweight apparatus. It is a single rogram.
> > SDoP is used to format the Exim reference manual.

> Which DocBook version?

> Is the "subset" standardized somwehere?

According to the documentation: "Support for almost all the elements
that are part of Simplified DocBook, as defined in the following URL:
  http://docs.linux.cz/programming/markup/www.docbook.org/tdg/simple/en/html/sdocbook.html
The main omissions are support for bibliographies, multiple authors,
subtables within tables, and some element attributes. Chapter 7 below
contains a complete list of what SDoP does support."

> Has the program a webpage?

No, just a freshmeat entry and a download location.

For clarity's sake this is primarily intersting for me since sdop and
xfpt are the canonical (and fastest) way for building exim's
documentation.

cu andreas
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