On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:27:24PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Anyone know of any KDE2.2 docs available as texinfo, > or ps, pdf, html, plain text? > > ...anything but docbook, it is just way too slow. > > > I think KDE really blew it on this one, or maybe the build process for > the docs is broken... I've always looked at LaTeX, SGML (docbook, xml, > etc.), etc. as the *source* for documents -- which then gets converted > to html, texinfo, rtf, ps, whatever.
I totally disagree. docbook is the perfect format because these are the *source* for documents...it allows for extremely easy language translations, and does not require the distro to produce *.html/*.txt/*.etc... versions of all the documentation. One only has to have a docbook viewer (both KDE and Gnome support reading of .docbook files directly) or you can convert it into your own favorite extension. Yes..it is slow due to the conversion/reading process but one gives up some things to gain alot of other things. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
