Hi, (Reply-To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org)
This is call for help for DebianDOC SGML infrastructure update to cope
with new UTF-8 environment for lenny. (Especially for PS and PDF
output.)
The volunteer should have some understandings on:
* SGML
* perl
* POSIX shell
* encoding (traditional, UTF-8)
* LaTeX (if possible latex-cjk-* knowledge)
* Basic Debian packaging
But before all these technicalities, one need to have time, patience and
willingness to learn new things. (That is the only thing I had when I
took care this package initially.)
There are many key Debian documentations which still use DebianDOC SGML
so this is needed functionality unless everyone moves to DocBook XML
quickly.
Please note I have already added XML conversion functionalities to
current debiandoc-sgml so user can convert their document to XML. With
help from iconv and vim, you can convert document relatively easy as
W. Martin Borgert showed us for developer-reference.
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Since this tool chain comes from old days, this is not UTF-8 friendly.
Also recent texlive move seems to have broke Korean build.
I know this Korean situation is possibly fixed by changing package to
use: hfont->CJK. ( debiandoc-sgml:
/usr/share/perl5/DebianDoc_SGML/Locale/ko_KR.eucKR/LaTeX
'before begin document' => '\\usepackage{CJK}')
But the generated PS/PDF file can not be seen properly under UTF-8
easily. I guess there is a better way to accommodate these PS or PDF to
display properly in UTF-8. This encoding issue is true for all other
packages.
It is easy to change this tool to produce UTF-8 for text and HTML while
converting source file but backward compatibility of the tool will be
the issue. So the best solution is to make this tool switchable.
For me, I am not so interested to make such extensive work on this
package. My future work will use DocBook XML with UTF-8, po4a.
So anyone is willing to work on this, please let me know.
Osamu
PS: The source is:
XS-Vcs-Cvs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/debiandoc-sgml debiandoc-sgml
XS-Vcs-Browser:
http://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/debiandoc-sgml/?cvsroot=debiandoc-sgml
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