Re: images and tables in docs

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> writes:

ADC> On 24 Feb 1999 21:28:09 +0100, Ardo van Rangelrooij
ADC> <avrangel@flevonet.nl> said:

>> Hi!  Unfortunately, DebianDoc-SGML doesn't support tables and
>> images yet.  For tables there already has been a proposal from Ian
>> Jackson, but figures are still somewhere in the pile of wishes next
>> to the drawing board.

ADC> I suggest docbook.  See the package the the docbook-stylesheets
ADC> packages.  Docbook has excellent table support, graphics support,
ADC> and furthermore is an industry standard of sorts.

Thanks, I will try it out.

ADC> You probably shouldn't be using debiandoc's DTD unless you're
ADC> specifically writing Debian documentation, IMHO.

I actually thought about providing the docs (with some adaptions) to
Debian, as the systems I write them for are Debian boxes.

Ciao,
	Martin