Re: GNOME 2 tasks

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

Do you plan to include support for the <book> tag?

Aaron.



On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 08:12, Patanjali Somayaji wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-09-30 at 23:27, John Fleck wrote:
> > Folks -
> > 
> > With GNOME 2 looming, I'm trying to get a handle on the jobs that need
> > doing. The list below, developed after discussion with a number of
> > people, tries to codify who's doing what now on the GNOME
> > Documentation Project, and what additional jobs need a volunteer.
> Where could I find the schedule for GNOME 2 ? so I can get and idea of
> the deadlines ..
>  
> > I'm open to suggestions - things to be added, or things on here that
> > we can live without. Obviously, I'm also looking for volunteers.
> 
> > gnome-db2html3 - Patanjali Somayaji
> >     Develop the SGML/XML->HTML engine used to convert our docs on the
> >     fly for help browser display
> Thought I'd just go into this a little further so everyone can suggest
> improvements / other ideas etc. 
> 
> 1. get support for sections into the xsl stylesheets so that just giving
> the document name outputs a table of contents with correct links. 
> 
> 2. given a section name, properly output that section of the doc, again
> with the right links. 
> 
> 3. Caching issues (this is not a priority for the GNOME 2 release, right
> ?)
> 
> 4. making gnome-db2html3 an independent app (doing this would also be
> better after the GNOME 2 release ?)
> 
> > XML conversion - Greg Leblanc
> >     Figure out the steps needed to convert our docs to XML and write
> >     up a how-to. Set up and test the standard app build system to be
> >     used with XML.
> Just a thought - would it be possible to use gnome-db2html3 and some
> other stylesheets 
> to convert documents from sgml to xml (the same way we output html -
> based on my study of XSL, i think its possible ... )
> 
> > GDP webmaster - Volunteer needed
> >     Keep the GDP web page up to date as we tackle this stuff.
> I could help out here ... i've designed and have been maintaining the
> Pune Linux User's Group (www.plug.org.in) site for a while, so I'm sort
> of familiar with maintaining webpages ...
>  
> thanks, any suggestions on gnome-db2html3 are most welcome, 
> patanjali
> 
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