On Sunday, 2001-12-02 at 21:03:18 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:03:46AM +0100, Timo Boewing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote:
> > for some future and current works i want to provide my writings > > additionally in other formats than xhtml. Has anyone a link to a list > > of free documentation formats? The problem is that i want to avoid > > using formats on that evtl. patents are pending. for example, i would > > like to provide my stuff using portable document format (pdf) and > > postscript (ps), but i am not shure if the formats as such are free > > cos adobe has a trademark on them. > > any hints? > There are authoring formats and display formats. > For authoring, I'd strongly recommend either LaTeX or DocBook, not > necessarially in that order. I had a hard time getting the DocBook tools working enough to convert the docs of one free software package on Solaris x86. I can't call them universal. Timo, if you want a simple format, look at POD (Plain Old Documentation). It is used by the Perl documentation, and has a lot of converters. E.g. manpage, HTML, plain text, PostScript, PDF. Look for Pod::<foo> modules at http://search.cpan.org if you want to know more. http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Pod HTH, Lupe Christoph -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://free.prohosting.com/~lupe | | I have challenged the entire ISO-9000 quality assurance team to a | | Bat-Leth contest on the holodeck. They will not concern us again. | | http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/klingon.htm |
