From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11164 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 11:54:42 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 11:54:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 10351 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2004 11:54:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 19506 Received: (qmail 10340 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 11:54:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 11:54:36 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [202.214.225.228] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 11:54:36 -0000 Received: from exchangejp.csr.com (unverified) by mailsweeperjp.CSR.COM (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.1) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:56:42 +0900 Received: from EXCHANGE02.csr.com ([192.168.137.45]) by exchangejp.csr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:56:05 +0000 Received: from csr.com ([192.168.144.127]) by EXCHANGE02.csr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:56:02 +0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: yodl discontinued. In-reply-to: "Oliver Kiddle"'s message of "Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:34:59 +0100." <3845.1078140899@trentino.logica.co.uk> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:54:29 +0000 Message-ID: <23603.1078142069@csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Mar 2004 11:56:02.0804 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B8EA340:01C3FF84] Oliver Kiddle wrote: > I did a bit of investigation into DocBook before. We can get an initial > conversion using makeinfo's --docbook option. The output of that still > needs significant editing, however. From docbook, we'd get decent HTML > output and better PDF output. Once there's a complete open source > XSL-FO implementation, PDF would get better still (currently, it goes > via TeX). Texinfo output seems to require some extra tool and would be > potentially less good. How attached are people to having decent texinfo > output? As long as we can get info, I think that's good enough. If makeinfo produces DocBook output, is the reverse true? I don't think we need texinfo as such since we can get PDF another way. (I would say, however, that neither of the obvious ways of turning FO --- the intermediate output stage, akin to DVI --- into PDF is entirely satisfactory. Either you need a full Java set up or a fairly particular TeX set up. Both are subject to the multiple dependency problems which will be familiar to anyone who's tried to get, for example, Gnome's documentation system working from scratch (though the actually dependencies are different in this case).) -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************