> What the world really needs is something like a reasonably complete
> SGML DTD (appendices, footnotes, titles, headers, several levels of
> section headers) and the tools to easily and more or less
> automatically transmogrify this format to LaTeX, HTML, RTF,
> PostScript, and plain ASCII -- regardless of platform (i.e. it should
> work not only on Unix and lookalikes).
I've been thinking about writing something like this ever since the first
day I worked on the first draft of my faq. I was only really interested
in ascii and html output, but it would be nice to have rtf for Windows
users and TeX for unix users. I would leave postscript to existing
conversion software, partly because I don't want to write it and partly
because there's no sense in re-inventing the wheel. Text processing
stuff like this is fairly portable so long as you keep in mind the cr/lf
differences between dos and unix.
> I've been looking at the AmiTCP FAQ and rolling my own on the side.
I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the references.
> I'm not an SGML guru and not exactly a Perl wizard either, so my
Well I'm not either of those things either, but I would write it in 'C'
because thats what I'm most comfortable with. I think we all know what
we need, so we should discuss it, and then if we can't find it on the
net, start an implementation. This thing can be a work in progress for
however long it takes, and still be useful from the get-go.
Maybe we should move this discussion to somewhere more on the topic of
sgml or text processing, perhaps on usenet. I'm running an old linux
kernel here on brutus that has a bug and can't run major-domo, so unless
someone can suggest another list server that will work I can't set up a
mailing list until linux 2.0 is available.
Take care,
Vic.
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