From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21703 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 13:02:30 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 13:02:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 25498 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2004 13:02:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 19509 Received: (qmail 25478 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 13:02:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 13:02:21 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [193.109.254.211] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 13:2:21 -0000 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: okiddle@yahoo.co.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-17.tower-36.messagelabs.com!1078146138!4255289 X-StarScan-Version: 5.2.5; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [158.234.9.163] Received: (qmail 22436 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 13:02:18 -0000 Received: from iris.logica.co.uk (158.234.9.163) by server-17.tower-36.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 13:02:18 -0000 Received: from trentino.logica.co.uk ([158.234.142.61]) by iris.logica.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id i21D2ICk008127 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:02:18 GMT Received: from trentino.logica.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by trentino.logica.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35267858477 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:01:33 +0100 (CET) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-StarScan-Version: 5.0.7; banners=.,-,- In-reply-to: <23603.1078142069@csr.com> From: Oliver Kiddle References: <23603.1078142069@csr.com> Subject: Re: yodl discontinued. Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:01:33 +0100 Message-ID: <4549.1078146093@trentino.logica.co.uk> Peter wrote: > > As long as we can get info, I think that's good enough. If makeinfo > produces DocBook output, is the reverse true? It doesn't do the reverse but there is a tool named docbook2X which does do it. Seems to use XSLT so it should be easy enough to improve if it doesn't work as we would like. It also does man which may or may not be useful. I've not as such tried it. > (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 I just took whatever I got from Debian, starting with the xmlto tool and it all worked well. That was using PassiveTeX. For Java, you must have been using FOP or something. Sooner or later, a project such as xmlroff will result in a decent C or C++ implementation which will make it easier. Oliver