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Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1 .0.9)
- To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland dot edu>
- Subject: Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1 .0.9)
- From: cg at cdegroot dot com (Cees de Groot)
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:09:48 +0200
- Cc: "'sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr'" <sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr>,Greg Ferguson <gferg at hoop dot timonium dot sgi dot com>,Taketoshi Sano <sano at debian dot org>, ldp-discuss at lists dot debian dot org,ldp-discuss at lists dot linuxdoc dot org, dave at lafn dot org, guylhemlistes at free dot fr,gferg at metalab dot unc dot edu, debian-sgml at lists dot debian dot org, JF at linux dot or dot jp
- Reply-To: sgml-tools at via dot ecp dot fr
GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu said:
> It's probably true that creating a DSSSL stylesheet for Linuxdoc
> wouldn't be all that complex, but I'm still a little troubled by the
> lack of a good text backend. I haven't seen any mass-migration of the
> LDP authors to DocBook yet, so I haven't really pushed to get
> something better than Lynx.
Does the term "chicken-and-egg problem" ring a bell?
There's a better backend-processing candidate for the text stuff (html2text,
IIRC), and it's even on the SourceForge SGMLtools-Lite project page as a bug
report that this must be implemented. I think that grabbing this bug would be
a more useful passtime than writing new stuff for Linuxdoc.
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