discuss: Linux Aviation HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Linux Aviation HOWTO
From:
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Date:
21 Jan 2005 08:21:41 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501210811560.8389-100000@cobra.xalasys.com>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:32 +0000, G Ferguson / LDP wrote:
> > But, they will not be accepted if they are not in XML or SGML.
> > (see his article "Abandoning XML"!)
> Fear not, Greg. I originally wrote *everything* in Docbook SGML, then
> migrated to Docbook XML, so that I could post PDF, XML source, and
> single-/multi-page HTML formats for readers. However, I found that
> almost no one was checking anything but the HTML, and I was having
> trouble making changes quickly enough. So, XML abandoned *for my site*.
There are volunteers, anyway, to convert other formats to XML. I recently
did the SCSI internals guide, for instance, which is nearly ready for
review, from OpenOffice writer to XML.
> It should be no trouble at all to quickly redo the markup on a document
> for submission, however. I already have sufficient knowledge of Docbook
> XML to do that without trouble, and it would likely take less than 2-3
> hours of work total.
There are tools to convert from HTML to DocBook XML. Should not even take
half an hour, unless you want to submit a real big bunch of documents, of
course ;-)
I wish that everybody would stop making authors afraid of submitting
documents, and instead of just telling them "it should be in DocBook or
LinuxDoc", adding a little bit of help on how to convert their particular
doc to our formats. We should be more careful not to scare new authors
away, I think. Sometimes answers to questions of new authors lack a bit
of tact. We should all try to work on that. David's idea of a really
short Author Guide/HOWTO is a step in the good direction.
Tille.
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