Re: Tables now supported

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:18:31PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > Hey guys,
> > 	I have been reading about this db2html2 and all, but I 
> > am curious...what
> > is the benefit to using it?  What new features are there?  Is 
> > this what is going
> > to render in Nautilus?
> 
> Rather than shipping docs with SGML and HTML (or even just HTML) versions of
> our manuals, they will ship with the SGML directly.  This gnome-db2html2
> will then convert it to HTML on the fly, and it will get rendered in
> Nautilus.  This removes the need to have the stylesheets RPM installed to
> build packages, and gives us slightly better control of how our semantic
> markup get's displayed.  Plus, it's a really cool project.  :-)  Later,
> 	Greg
> 
> P.S.  Yes, I have many other things to do, this is just more fun.
> 

And it has the added advantage, as I think Greg may have indirectly
mentioned elsewhere in this thread, that everyone's documents, not
just GNOME's, can be rendered in a standard way, insofar as everyone
uses DocBook, which seems to be the direction the open source/free
community is headed.

When you add OMF for metadata, you end up with <dream>one standard
documentation system</dream>.
Cheers,
-- 
John Fleck
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