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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> > Robert,
> >
>
> Hmm. I offered to build it a few emails back. (To which your reply was
> db2html :]).
And which I've got bad news about. docbook-tools are rpm only, and the
cvs variant used rpm spec files to build. It also uses jade, not
openjade (and jade is no longer under development).
<snip>
> >
> > Unfortunately, db2html works the same on GNU/Linux as it does on
> Cygwin. :)
> > db2html doesn't work with XML on either platform.
>
> Well thats good news in a sense. I'm back on the hunt for a fully
> user-friendly authoring system.
>
Harold, I have a challenge for you. Build your FAQ on cygwin with
db2html. That will solve 90% of my concerns. Meanwhile I'm heading down
a make system path for the doco.
Rob