docbook: is the linuxdoc DTD deprecated for LDP?
Subject:
Re: is the linuxdoc DTD deprecated for LDP?
From:
Alexander Bartolich ####@####.####
Date:
5 Aug 2002 07:56:17 -0000
Message-Id: <21567.1028534149@www6.gmx.net>
Tabatha Persad wrote:
> [...] Ah, well it was worth a try. It would be nice to understand
> why they only accept LinuxDoc over DocBook, but I suppose
> someone will have to step forth and explain those reasons.
Is there any 'official' relationship with Marco Budde,
####@####.#### the operator of the project?
Main page is http://www.tu-harburg.de/dlhp/
The general appearance seems to be typical for German
old-school, though. You should know that German netiquette
is many times more extreme than it ever was in it's originating
culture. (BTW: I'm Austrian, and we are not too fond of that
barrack yard style).
There is a document explaining whereabouts of the project
(similar to the Author Guide here). I translated interesting
parts:
# Die HOWTOs sollten inhaltlich korrekt sein. Insbesondere
# bei Übersetzungen von LDP HOWTOs sollte unbedingt vorher
# überprüft werden, ob die HOWTO es überhaupt wert ist,
# übersetzt zu werden. Leider gibt es beim LDP anscheinend
# keine Qualitätskontrolle, so daß viele LDP HOWTOs teilweise
# bis völlig falsch sind.
Content of HOWTOs should be correct. Before considering
translation of LDP HOWTOs you should absolutely verify
that the HOWTO is worth the trouble of translation at all.
Regrettably there does not seem to be quality control at LDP,
resulting in a lot of LDP HOWTOs being partially or completely wrong.
Later on it is declared that the project uses sgml-tools 1.0.9.
(absolutely no comment on other tools). Using version 2.x of
sgml-tools is not accepted because of incompatibilities and
bugs. The story continues with the revelation that recent
compilers fail to build the original sources of sgml-tools 1.0.9,
so the project provides a patch. But that's not the end:
# Hierbei sollte man jedoch unbedingt beachten, daß die LDP
# HOWTOs auf einer anderen Formatierungsrichtlinie beruhen.
# Man kann also nicht einfach die bestehende Formatierung
# übernehmen, sondern muß diese eventuell an die in diesem
# Dokument beschriebene anpassen.
Take into account that LDP HOWTOs are based on a different
formatting guideline. You can't just take over the existing
format but possibly have to change it to the one described in
this document. And the only example on that page is
<!doctype linuxdoc system>
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
The document links to the old site name, by the way:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto
So I guess that Marco Budde has no close relationship to
this list or TLDP.
Can any of the 'politicians' please speak up?
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