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Re: [Xorg] DocBook SGML/XML manual pages...: msg#00021

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Subject: Re: [Xorg] DocBook SGML/XML manual pages...


Keith Packard writes:
>
> Around 0 o'clock on May 6, Roland Mainz wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if there is already a way to handle Unix manual pages
> > in DocBook/{SGML|XML} format ? There are now a couple of DocBook manual
> > pages in the tree and I'd like to add more, but IMHO we need some
> > official way to handle such stuff then...
>
> I don't think there are imake rules to handle docbook files. However, we
> should start incorporating the autotool build files into the X.Org tree,
> and we should certainly find a way to deal with docbook files in that
> environment.
>
> Egbert suggested that perhaps we might like to create a common set of
> autotool macros for us to share across multiple modules; perhaps rules for
> docbook would be a good candidate for inclusion in that module.
>

That is certainly true. And it will convince me that we will not
loose a feature that I found very importand in Imake ;-)
However we should also proceed with our discussions about a future
documentation standard. If we add files now and agree on a different
standard in the future we will have to do more conversions than we
already have to do now.

Egbert.


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