discuss: HTML online converter
Subject:
Re: Res: [discuss] HTML online converter
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
1 May 2007 15:59:03 -0000
Message-Id: <20070501155915.GC5195@davespc>
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:01:32PM -0700, Fernando Boaglio wrote:
>
> Machtelt Garrels wrote:
>
> > You can send it to me, I will convert it to our standard DocBook XML.
>
> The problem is the original author keeps using SGML, and then I will
> need to convert every new update.
What I suggest is that you use linuxdoc-sgml. It looks a lot cleaner
than docbook and has only about 20% of the tags visible. Most tags are
omitted but are still implicitly there and the sgml software figures
out where the missing tags should be put when it does a conversion.
You don't have to use the tags.
This is a canned statement I keep as a vim macro:
For a simple alternative to DocBook
markup see my mini howto: Howtos-with-LinuxDoc. The LinuxDoc format
is much easier to learn and use but doesn't have as may options as
DocBook. The url is
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Howtos-with-LinuxDoc.html
See also a comparison of the two markups at
www.lafn.org/~dave/linux/ld_vs_db.txt
> The ideal is we both convert everything to DocBook format and leave SGML.
I don't think you should do this.
>
> I will try to ask him...
>
> []'s
> Fernando Boaglio
David Lawyer
