Sun's StarOffice to support DocBook?
Mark Ovens
a thread ""Wish List" for next SO release...":
Subject: Re: "Wish List" for next SO release...
Date: 06 Sep 1999 14:38:11 -0400
From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <ga...@canada.com>
Organization: TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Newsgroups: staroffice.com.support.starwriter,
staroffice.com.support.misc, staroffice.com.feature
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SGML DocBook support!! (please, oh please!)
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Mark Ovens
the same newsgroup:
As I understand it, all Sun documentation is coded in SGML DocBook.
What are the chances we might see StarWriter emerge as the GUI editor
for DocBook?
Nik Clayton
> Found another, more constructive, request by the same poster (in
> the same newsgroup:
>
> As I understand it, all Sun documentation is coded in SGML DocBook.
Not quite. They use a DTD called SolBook, which is a slightly customised
version of DocBook (in the same way that we use a customised version for
the FDP).
n% of Sun's Solaris manual pages are written in SolBook, and man(1) on a
Solaris system is a wrapper script which, from memory, looks at the first
few lines and runs nroff or instant on it as necessary.
> What are the chances we might see StarWriter emerge as the GUI editor
> for DocBook?
I'd be interested, but I'll believe it when we see it. You see, in order
to do that you'll need some way of pretty printing the DocBook markup
so that (for example) <sect1><title>Foo</title>...</sect1> has the "Foo"
presented in 18pt Times (or whatever) which means stylesheets.
In order to do this they have three choices -- DSSSL, which is the (or an)
ISO standard for SGML stylesheets. I don't know of anything that
implements DSSSL completely, it's quite a hard problem.
Or XSL, which is the stylesheet language for XML. Again, I don't know
any commercial product that successfully supports it, let alone a 'free'
one.
Or they could roll their own stylesheet language.
At some point I really need to find the time to investigate
WordPerfect/Unix's SGML support. . .
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On [19990914 01:45], Nik Clayton (n...@freebsd.org) wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
>>
>> What are the chances we might see StarWriter emerge as the GUI editor
>> for DocBook?
>
>I'd be interested, but I'll believe it when we see it. You see, in order
>to do that you'll need some way of pretty printing the DocBook markup
>so that (for example) <sect1><title>Foo</title>...</sect1> has the "Foo"
>presented in 18pt Times (or whatever) which means stylesheets.
>
>In order to do this they have three choices -- DSSSL, which is the (or an)
>ISO standard for SGML stylesheets. I don't know of anything that
>implements DSSSL completely, it's quite a hard problem.
>
>Or XSL, which is the stylesheet language for XML. Again, I don't know
>any commercial product that successfully supports it, let alone a 'free'
>one.
Norman Walsh now has a beta XSL package. Might this help us a lot?
I haven't taken a peek yet, downloaded it though, but that's because of
another problem. See my other fun mail ;)
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