Re: DebianDoc postscript output
As part of the move to DocBook the SGML-Tools people are also
developing a GROFF back-end for jade and donating that (of course)
back to the jade people. They use that back-end to get ASCII via
GROFF. This all is planned to be available also in late fall.
apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris) writes:
> Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> writes:
> > This has been bothering me for a little while. The postscript output from
> > DebianDoc seems to have a lot of little glitches, like extra or missing
> > spaces; line breaks seem to matter, where in LaTeX they would not. Is this
> > problem with DebianDoc or lout? How difficult would it be to use LaTeX
> > instead, if the latter? Is this a known problem? Does the tutorial do
> > something wrong to cause this?
>
> You know, Havoc, I personally am not sure. I generally avoid lout for
> everything but ASCII output. I suggest you submit a bug.
>
> What would be nice would be to have alternate techniques for
> formatting debiandoc-sgml documents. I maintain both jade and sdc.
> With jade, we'd need DSSSL to be able to format debiandoc-sgml, but
> the limitation with jade is that it doesn't have ASCII or NROFF
> backends, and it seems that people are loath to add backend to jade
> since apparently its wierd C++ code. sdc's problem is that it uses
> non-free bigloo, but little birdies tell me that will be fixed by late
> fall.
>
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