discuss: Anyone help me with converting the new Usenet News HOWTO to XML?
Subject:
Re: Anyone help me with converting the new Usenet News HOWTO to XML?
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
17 Sep 2001 11:35:48 -0000
Message-Id: <10109170726.ZM16625@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Sep 17, 11:16am, Shuvam wrote:
> Subject: Anyone help me with converting the new Usenet News HOWTO to
XML?
>
> If you let me know whether any of you have the time, I'll send the LaTeX
> source and the PS formatted file in a tarball to you. Should I also post
> this document to ####@####.#### right now? I guess that should only
> be done after the conversion to SGML/XML, right?
Correct.
> And I've read all the stuff I could find guiding new authors on
> www.linuxdoc.org, but I am confused about one thing: what source file
> format does the LDP recommend for new documents? Is it DocBook SGML,
> or XML, or LinuxDoc? If this is a FAQ, will you please point me to where
> I cand find the answer?
We accept all of those formats:
SGML - Linuxdoc, DocBook v3.x, DocBook v4.x
XML - DocBook v4.1.2
We *prefer* DocBook 4.x SGML or XML, but it's not something we
are forcing people to work in. Linuxdoc SGML is still accepted.
--
Ferg
