Bug#486144: doc-base: Please add section for typesetting
Package: doc-base
Version: 0.8.16
Severity: normal
[Cc'ing some people who might be interested, according to bug logs or
list posts]
Hi, in #109431 you provided an analysis of doc-base/menu-mappings, and
you wrote:
Sections with no obvious mapping:
Tex (14) => TeX or Editors/TeX or Editing/TeX
I suggest to add a section for this, but to not use the name TeX
(Editing/TeX is plainly wrong for most of them). Rather, I would like
to make the section broader, and include everything related to
typesetting.
Packages which come to mind as belonging there are
- debiandoc-sgml (currently using Text)
- openjade (currently using Text)
- lout (currently using Apps/Text).
- linuxdoc-tools (currently using Apps/Text).
- docbook-xsl-doc(currently using Apps/Text).
According to the doc-base documentation, Text is wrong here:
,----
| Text
|
| Text oriented tools like dictionaries, OCR, translation, text
| analysis software, etc.
|
`----
I don't think that this fits, since they all deal, like TeX, with
producing a typeset output from somehow logically and/or physically
structured and markup'ed input, not with the *contents* of that input,
as the section description talks about.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages doc-base depends on:
ii perl 5.8.8-7etch3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
doc-base recommends no packages.
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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