Re: Greetings...

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 02:00, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 10:47, Mark Levitt wrote:
> > From: "John Fleck" <jfleck inkstain net>
> > > One of the major areas of effort over the next six weeks will be using
> > > the Style Guide to edit documents if you're interesting in helping in
> > > that effort.
> > 
> > Yeah, I could cut my teeth on this. What process have you used for editing
> > in the past? The best way for me to edit with hard copy and a pen, but
> > that's probably difficult to do one e-mail. :)
> 
> If I may make a suggestion...
> 
> I think there should be a conversion tool to ps or pdf or HTML.  Print
> out the documents you want to work on and edit with pen as you are
> accustomed.  Then download the original and make the appropriate
> changes.  Use diff to pull out the changes you made.  Send the diff to
> to the author if that is required.  Then either you or the author
> commits the changes (make these arrangements with the author based on
> whether you have cvs access or not).

We have conversion tools for all of those formats. 
docbook2[html|ps|pdf] -c /etc/sgml/catalog DOC_NAME.[xml|sgml] should
work on most distributions at this point, if you have the tools
installed.  I've certainly been doing my editing on paper for the past
2+ years, from DocBook source.
	Greg

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