Re: markup language for tutorial
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 11:34:25AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> I didn't really address this whole mail.
>
> On Fri, 10 Jul 1998 Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:
> > If you ask me, I think the RMS is on the wrong path with texinfo.
> > SGML is the whisper of the future. Maybe you want to ask him if they
> > dont want to donate a texinfo backend to jade dsssl engine?
> >
>
> How much work is involved here? I see the existing DSSSL source for other
> formats is around 9000 lines according to wc. Is this something likely to
> happen if there's interest, or a huge pain they'd have to pay someone to
> do?
Well, it is so that the DSSSL standard is huge (several hundred pages)
and harder to read than the SGML standard. James Clark does wonderful
things, but he is also very busy. You would need someone who has
knowledge about C++, SGML and DSSSL. The standard is not set in stone,
too. Currently, Jade is only evolving very slow.
OTOH, if the GNU project is *really* serious about texinfo, support
for SGML/DSSSL is a *must*, because this is the future.
I think they would have to pay :) but maybe there are really people
interested in such a project. Currently, a groff backend is being
written. Backends for html, rtf and tex (with jadetex) already exist.
Which this amount of example code, it should probably not be too
hard.
Marcus
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