Re: sgml-tools

[Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>]

Hello,

Not that I have any extra time, but I would be willing to help someone
keep this in order.

J

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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, David Lawyer wrote:

> 
> 
> The following is about the sgmltools for LinuxDoc DTD.  It seems that 
> there is a version 1.0.11 in addition to the 1.0.10 that I previously 
> mentioned.  As you will note the person who created the above two 
> bug-fixed versions has bowed out.  So we need someone to maintain the 
> version 1 of these tools.  I think it should replace the current Debian 
> distribution sgml-tools 1.0.9.  I wrote to the Debian maintainer but get no 
> response.  Since a program exists to convert Debain to RPM (Redhat, etc.) 
> it would be possible for most people to get sgml-tools 1.0.11 pre-compiled.
> 
> Is anyone willing to work on this project?  A first step might just be to 
> get the source to 1.0.11 (or perhaps call it 1.0.12 after fixing the 
> problem I had compiling) and put it a metalab.  Eventually we may go to 
> DocBook DTD but for the meantime we need to keep using this 1-series of 
> sgml-tools.
> 
> 			David Lawyer
> 
> >> >On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David Lawyer wrote:
> >
> [To: Casantos et. al.]
> >> 
> >> I picked up your sgmltools 1.0.11 and get error message while compiling:
> >> rtf2rtf.l:56: initializer element is not constant.
> >> Ditto for line 57. 
> >> 
> >> These lines are like:
> >> FILE *out = stdout;
> >> 
> >> I guess the value of stdout (a pointer) is not known to the compiler.
> >> Should these assignments go into main so they are assigned at runtime?
> >> I did this and it compiled OK.  That is, I left only "FILE *out;" at the 
> >> start of the file and put "out = stdout;" into main.  I'm not sure if 
> >> this is the correct fix.
> >> 
> >> Your new version has fixed the "too many blank lines" problem.
> >> 
> >> 		David Lawyer
> >> 
> 
> Casantos replied:
> >Interesting. It took 3 months until I got a feedback. In the meantime I   
> >got bored by all that LinuxDOC x DocBook and gave up.
> >
> >I sent in August 3 a new version of the Portuguese-HOWTO that was never
> >updated at metalab and soon realized that I didn't want to spend the rest
> >of my life writing "if your Linux distribution is "Blah", ... , but if it
> >is "Turbo-Bla-Blah", ... :-P. With more than 20 Linux distributions on the
> >street, there were too much "..."s to write.
> >
> >I left all the LDP lists and LDP itself. It's dead to me.
> >
> >The answer to your question is: "I don't care".
> 
> 
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