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Re: [PATCH 0/4] Bug#545548: Documentation updates



On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:53:55AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> >> Please find a SGML version of upgrading-checklist.
> 
> > Here it is.
> 
> I assume that you did the conversion via some sort of automated tool.  Is
> there any way that the converter could be told to explicitly close tags
> rather than using implicit tag closures like this:

Unfortunately, I did not use an automated tool.

> > <sect> Version 3.8.4.0
> > <p>
> 
> > Release Jan 2010.
> 
> > <p><taglist>
> 
> That's generally considered poor SGML style and tends to confuse
> SGML-aware editors that can otherwise help with useful indentation.

Well, maybe we can use debiandoc2sgml -1 to fix that, and then reindent ?
Otherwise, I will fix that manually.

> Otherwise, the idea seems fine to me.  I would still eventually like to
> move everything to Docbook-XML, but in the meantime fewer formats makes
> sense.

At least there is debiandoc2docbookxml to help the conversion.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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