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Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1 .0.9)
- To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>
- Subject: Re: experimental release of linuxdoc-tools (based on sgml-tools 1 .0.9)
- From: cg@cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot)
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:09:48 +0200
- Cc: "'sgml-tools@via.ecp.fr'" <sgml-tools@via.ecp.fr>, Greg Ferguson <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>, Taketoshi Sano <sano@debian.org>, ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org, ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org, dave@lafn.org, guylhemlistes@free.fr, gferg@metalab.unc.edu, debian-sgml@lists.debian.org, JF@linux.or.jp
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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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