Re: Greetings...

[Kevin Breit <mrproper ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 11:39, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 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.
As a side note though, just becuase something converts to HTML doesn't
mean it will go to PS.  I always have problems converting to PS.

Kevin