[Cc: list massively trimmed.] On Monday, July 22, 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > IMO the tags aren't the problem with DocBook. It's just *really* > difficult to get good-looking results with. I've actually converted > the FreeBSD book into DocBook (anybody want a perl script?), but jade > can't format it, and gmat is a real kludge. Theoretically, DocBook is > better, but I want something that works.
Well, getting something that looks good out of DocBook is a trivial exercise for somebody who knows how to handle the formatting-related bits (i.e. the *.dsl stylesheets). Comparing ms(7) and DocBook is sort of like comparing apples and oranges. Basically when you're writing a DocBook document, you're simply marking up the information--telling DocBook what's what in terms of paragraphs, lists, host names, the like. ms(7) macros allow you to do a lot of the formatting on your own. I imagine that ORA is moving/has moved away from it for that reason: they want their books to look exactly alike, which is easily accomplished by having authors submit works in DocBook and applying their own `custom' stylesheet. -- +-------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | Diagnostics are the programs that | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | run when nothing else will. | +-------------------+-----------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
