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Re: Re: DOCBOOK: Manpages in Linux
- From: Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat dot com>
- To: Dennis Grace <dgrace at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: ra-whiteside at attbi dot com, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:03:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Manpages in Linux
- References: <OF6313A3D4.84783615-ON85256BA7.004E979C@pok.ibm.com>
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:25:25AM -0500, Dennis Grace wrote:
> Trying to build man pages with docbook2man was (pace Steve Cheng)
> something of a nightmare for us. It's incomplete. If you want to
> build man pages from XML, I recommend processing with XSLTPROC via
> Martin van Beers' db2man.xsl (available from Sourceforge). Works
> like a champ.
I have made a substantial number of improvements to db2man, and (as I
said earlier) have distributed this improved version as part of xmlto.
I would love to incorporate the improvements into CVS. I spoke to
Martin about it some months ago, but the few patches I had sent him at
the time have never shown up. :-(
You can get xmlto from here: http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto
For a demonstration of the output quality, take a look at the xmlto
man page, or the man pages distributed with patchutils
(http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils).
Martin, any chance of getting these improvements into CVS yet?
Tim.
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