discuss: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
Subject:
Re: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
From:
Gerardo Arnaez ####@####.####
Date:
28 Jul 2003 03:20:06 -0000
Message-Id: <20030728032005.66591.qmail@web20210.mail.yahoo.com>
Hello and welcome.
What linux distro are you using?
perhaps if you gave me your text, i could set up a bit
of it and it would get you on your way?
G
--- Simon Anderson ####@####.#### wrote:
> I've been working my way through the Author Guide
> and have become
> extremely frustrated.
>
> Why do I need to install all of the various elements
> of this undocumented
> LDP cruft then learn how to use it in order to get a
> document published?
>
> I've looked through the necessary packages, none of
> which
> contains _any_ documentation on install or usage.
> docbook-dssl handily
> mentions an install.html file but doesn't bother to
> provide it. Some of
> the packages uncompress into the current directory
> and try to overwrite
> files from other packages. Which versions should I
> use? This thing is an
> complete mess!
>
> The Author guide is not much better; "you need this
> this and this" but not
> "this is how you install and configure the various
> pieces and start using
> them.."
>
> Everyone reads HOWTO's in html anyway, why jump
> through all of the
> unnecessary hoops? Having to go through all of this
> rubbish to translate a
> perfectly good document from HTML into some
> unnecessary alternative format
> for the one in a billion people that doesn't have a
> browser is a complete
> waste of time.
>
> -Simon.
>
>
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