Re: SGML and FAQs (was: One FAQ, multiple newsgroups)

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The problem with the linuxdoc-sgml system (we use it at the FreeBSD Project
for all our documentation and I use it for the FreeBSD FAQ) is that:

- the linuxdoc DTD is rather poor (designed for HTML 1.x in mind),

- translators are not great, especially for text output (suitable for
posting),

- no support for HTML tables and more sophisticated things.

For these reasons, we'll probably move soon to a docbook based DTD (made by
the Davenport group hosted by O'Reilly) and someone is writing the
translator. There is the ORA translator (GMAT) but it is not available now
(still Alpha).

6 Apr 1995 197.5 Ko /sources/languages/sgml/gmat/gmat-0.1p2.tar.gz

I don't know if there is another more recent version.

> It mentions faq's in the documentation a few times. I'm going to try to
> get my faq converted over before the next release date. You can get it

If you want an example of a FAQ written with it, have a look at:

ftp://ftp.freebBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/doc/FAQ
http://www.FreeBSD.org/How/faq/

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