discuss: The Linux Kernel
Subject:
Re: The Linux Kernel
From:
"Nicolas Chauvat" ####@####.####
Date:
8 Nov 2002 10:32:11 -0000
Message-Id: <20021108103104.GF23434@logilab.fr>
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:16:55PM +0000, David A Rusling wrote:
> All,
> more of an introduction than a cry for help (that may come later).
> Years back, I wrote 'The Linux Kernel' in glorious LaTeX.
> Unfortunately, it's way out of date (it was based on 2.0.*) and, over
> the years, I've seen volunteers come and go. Seeing as xml appears to
> come of age, I've started to 'port' this to xml. I'm using Red Hat 8.0
> and Tim Waugh's excellent Selfdocbook as a guide and texi2db as a
> starting point.
>
> Using xml via xemacs plus trial and error seems more or less as big a
> pain as writing LaTeX was/is. Maybe slightly less arcane but not much.
> Any advice on what-you-see-is-sort-of-like-what-you'll-get tools? The
> wiki stuff looks interesting, I don't know how it would scale to a book
> sized thing though...
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles/STX says that you can convert
StructuredText to DocBook and that this was used for the Zope Book.
http://docutils.sf.net/ describes the new version of structured text (rST)
and also provides a converter at
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/oliverr/docbook/
Hope this helps.
--
Nicolas Chauvat
http://www.logilab.com - "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" - LOGILAB, Paris (France)
