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Re: working SGML package
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- Subject: Re: working SGML package
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- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:22:26 +0100 (CET)
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On 6 Nov 1999, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> - Installation should record the system settings (as does, for example,
> gtk) so future packages can be easily localized. The installation
> should also build the system CATALOG file to a useful set of features
It seems the RPM files from Cygnus do that at install time. But I'm no
expert in that particular area.
> - A template 'configure' script to create makefile for any new project
> which in turn can be used to generate (at minimum) web, RTF and LaTeX
> output, but which should also be able to generate PDF, Postscript
> and DVI (ie, automates the LaTeX handling).
Such a script would be rather easy to create.
But the tools don't produce LaTeX output like you and I know it. However
they do generate HTML, RTF, PS, PDF and DVI and I think can be adepted
rather easily in generating TXT as well. (However as lynx out put is not
state of the art the ascii output is not a good as we might have liked.
> - You should be able to extend stylesheets locally (ie system wide) and
> on a per-document basis without adding three 'path' options to your
> command line.
This is as much a thing of organising stylesheets. But a single variable
should be able to distinguish between myorg/mysheet.dsl and
yourorg/yoursheet.dsl I guess.
> - the use-cases should be what people want to do rather than what the
> machine wants to hear. The end-user commands should be simply
>
> make html
> make rtf
> make pdf
Or something like:
db2html
(which allready exists)
Hugo.
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