* "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:58:23 -0500 (EST)
> From: Stuart Anderson <anderson@metrolink.com>
>
> > And does the LSB team know that linuxdoc sgml is too restricted to write
> > specs in?
>
> The document is written in Docbook SGML.
>
> Unfortunately, the tools for processing Docbook SGML seem to suck
> rocks. You can't generate pretty-printed text files from the SGML, like
> you can with Linuxdoc.
>
> I suppose the current religious fascination with Docbook will eventually
> cause people to improve the tools, but right now, I'm seriously
> unimpressed. Even texinfo has more convenient and easier-to-use tools,
> and that's damning with very faint praise..... *Sigh*
Convert DocBook to texinfo.
You are right, converting DocBook to text sucks. You can convert it to
one big HTML-File and then "lynx -dump" it to text, but this is also
poor (no tables). One should try w3m which does tables.
Jochem
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