Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-29 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/29/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Well, I didn't figure out how to do it in DocBook, but it was no > > problem with sed: > > > > sed -i 's;;;g' faq/faq*.html > > BTW, I don't think I saw the "id\d+" form of reference ever used in the > FAQ, but just in case, to fully preserve the prior fun

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/18/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > Heh, this is the first time I accessed the FAQ aft

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > 4.72 (don't laugh, I still use it occasionally). > > Well, I didn't figure out how to do it in DocBook, but it was no > problem with sed: > > sed -i 's;;;g' faq/faq*.html > > Hopefully in the meantime you were able to make do with a more advanced > browser su

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/18/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Heh, this is the first time I accessed the FAQ after the switch, and > > > > the direct question links don't wor

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Heh, this is the first time I accessed the FAQ after the switch, and > > > the direct question links don't work. :-( I think the presence of the > > > id= attr

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-18 Thread Marcel Telka
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:23:53PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As I understand it, DocBook is an XSLT stylesheet, right? Do you know Slightly OT: http://www.docbook.org/";> DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer har

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > > On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just > > > > to make sure links t

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > > > sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source > >

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-18 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > > sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source > > to DocBook and put up preliminary versions: >

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Shaddy Baddah writes: > Otherwise, Debian has a whole package just for that script... is it > untrendy to follow suit? It's either that, or pull in 10Mb of tetex just for a script. If you want to package texi2html, please mail to cygwin-apps. If not, I intend to include it in the next tetex upl

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi again, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > I just found this all out the hard way. I noticed the switch in the > mknetrel file for 3.0.0-3, and knowing that the executable was included > in 2.0.x, I wondered about the rationale of its' inclusion. Oh, I forgot to mention that there seems to be a number of p

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >>Probably, but a successful build of the Cygwin HTML documentation relies >>on texi2html being present. > > > Ah. Nice one of me to come into the discussion a week late, but I've been doing something recently that required texi2html. Not wanting to gripe or anythi

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source > to DocBook and put up preliminary versions: All done! Everyone update their Cygwin FAQ bookmarks with n

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:08 AM 8/5/2005, you wrote: >On 8/4/05, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 11:13 AM 8/4/2005, you wrote: >> >Yes, as noted they're in the HTML in tags..., converted from >> >DocBook's id="..." There will of course be a Table of Contents with links so >> >you don't have to look at the HTML to determine t

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-04 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/4/05, Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:13 AM 8/4/2005, you wrote: > >Yes, as noted they're in the HTML in tags..., converted from > >DocBook's id="..." There will of course be a Table of Contents with links so > >you don't have to look at the HTML to determine this. > > Ah, OK. That's what I was l

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:13 AM 8/4/2005, you wrote: >On 8/4/05, Larry Hall wrote: >> At 01:15 AM 8/4/2005, you wrote: >> >You can link to named sections, for example >> >http://staff.washington.edu/joshuadf/cygwin/new-faq.html#faq.install.disk-space >> > >> Just one question. How does one determine what the names a

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/4/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I like the way the new FAQ looks. One question, however: is DocBook > easily installable on Cygwin? Can the FAQ be built with the default > settings of Cygwin's DocBook package? If so, this package should be > listed as a prerequisite for building the Cygwi

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski writes: > > > Probably, but a successful build of the Cygwin HTML documentation relies > > on texi2html being present. > > Ah. > > > It would have been nice to at least announce that texi2html is no > > longer packaged, and/or packag

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski writes: > Probably, but a successful build of the Cygwin HTML documentation relies > on texi2html being present. Ah. > It would have been nice to at least announce that texi2html is no > longer packaged, and/or package it separately. I don't see that in > your tetex-3.0.0 anno

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski writes: > > > Incidentally, tetex-3.0.0 seems to be missing the texi2html executable > > (it was present in tetex-2.0.2). Jan, any comments? > > teTeX bundles a whole lot of stuff, like libpng, texinfo, zlib, ncurses, > whatnot. I

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski writes: > Incidentally, tetex-3.0.0 seems to be missing the texi2html executable (it > was present in tetex-2.0.2). Jan, any comments? teTeX bundles a whole lot of stuff, like libpng, texinfo, zlib, ncurses, whatnot. I think that sane, independent packages like these had bette

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook (Attn: tetex maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > sure links to the numbered questions work FYI, "makeinfo --html" will have named anchors (with names being section headers), and so will "texi2html --node-files" (I als

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-04 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/4/05, Larry Hall wrote: > At 01:15 AM 8/4/2005, you wrote: > >You can link to named sections, for example > >http://staff.washington.edu/joshuadf/cygwin/new-faq.html#faq.install.disk-space > > > Just one question. How does one determine what the names are for the > named sections? I assume

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source > to DocBook and put up preliminary versions: Th

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-04 Thread Warren Young
Larry Hall wrote: How does one determine what the names are for the named sections? They're arbitrary, just like named anchors in HTML. From a DocBook document I maintain: Using Unicode with MySQL++ This generates... 6. Using Unicode with MySQL++ ...in the HTML version. If you

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:15 AM 8/4/2005, you wrote: >I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make >sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source >to DocBook and put up preliminary versions: > >Several files: http://staff.washington.edu/joshuadf/cygwin/faq.html

Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-03 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source to DocBook and put up preliminary versions: Several files: http://staff.washington.edu/joshuadf/cygwin/faq.html One file: http://staff.washington.ed