X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB72DB82C for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:30:09 -0400 (AST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44764-01 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:30:10 +0000 (GMT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mx1.surnet.cl (mx1.surnet.cl [216.155.73.180]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694A0DB866 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:30:04 -0400 (AST) Received: from unknown (HELO cluster.surnet.cl) ([216.155.73.165]) by mx1.surnet.cl with ESMTP; 15 Nov 2005 12:32:27 -0300 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.97,333,1125892800"; d="scan'208"; a="27005588:sNHT57749616" Received: from alvh.no-ip.org (216.155.78.23) by cluster.surnet.cl (7.0.043) (authenticated as alvherre@surnet.cl) id 43501597003F77C6; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:30:08 -0300 Received: by alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 87265C2DC19; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:30:12 -0300 (CLST) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:30:12 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Peter Eisentraut Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Bruce Momjian Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation. Message-ID: <20051115153012.GD5868@surnet.cl> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Bruce Momjian References: <18400.1131720229@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200511150513.jAF5D1e13382@candle.pha.pa.us> <20051115112341.GC25699@surnet.cl> <200511151253.01248.peter_e@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511151253.01248.peter_e@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.716 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.530, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.479, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST=1.44, RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY=0.327] X-Spam-Score: 1.716 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 200511/25 X-Sequence-Number: 3335 Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Dienstag, 15. November 2005 12:23 schrieb Alvaro Herrera: > > There is no SGML toolchain because SGML has been abandoned as the > > DocBook markup language. The toolchain that everybody else uses is > > based on XML DocBook. It has been proposed that we abandon SGML and > > jump to XML, but the idea has been shot down. And it's possible to > > convert our SGML to XML automatically and process it with the newer > > toolchain. > > Oh, what is this stable and mature DocBook XML to print output conversion tool > that you seem to be referring to? I'm not saying there's any -- I'm just saying nobody else uses SGML. That said, I just looked at a Gnome book that is published as PDF and written using XML DocBook, and they seem to use "docbook2pdf" which in turns appears to be this: http://sourceware.org/docbook-tools/ One drawback that I can see in that book is that the HTML pages do not have the nice names our current docs have. Not sure if that's an inherent property of the XML tools. That said, I don't have much interest in messing with all this. Personally I'm pretty happy using the HTML docs (I even read the SGML directly at times.) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.