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:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
17 Sep 2001 11:49:04 -0000
Message-Id: <20010917074808.A4625@lupercalia.net>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:16:36AM +0530, Shuvam wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Hello everyone, I'm Shuvam Misra, the new official maintainer of the
> Usenet News HOWTO. I have written a skeletal document, i.e. with all the
> sections and subsections, but with only about 20% of the final text. It's
> still work in progress, but it's moving quite rapidly now. I was wondering
> whether one of you can help me by converting this document to DocBook
> SGML, or XML, once? All later additions and changes will be done by us
> (my colleague Hema and me), so it's just a one-time task.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
Is this `The Linux News HOWTO' formerly maintained by Vince Skahan and
at http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/News-HOWTO
or a new HOWTO?
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
