Re: GNU tasklist entry still needed?

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:53:43PM +0900, Michael Smith wrote:
> I don't think it has died. Steve did a new release last August.
> And releases have tended to be spaced pretty far apart.

(Not that I wanted it to be that way; too bad I simply
have little time to work on the project.)

Answer to the original question:

If people want to advance the project, they should
go take their DocBook documentation and run it with docbook2X.

It used to be the case (>1 year ago) that if something was not
supported or buggy then docbook2X would "crash", but I think
the situation is much better now --- you should get at least
passable output (i.e. you can run makeinfo on it) 
even if something is not supported.

So what part of DocBook is not supported?
Mostly the new stuff that appeared in DocBook 4.x (e.g. EBNF, OOP synopses), 
and perhaps qanda* is not rendered as nicely as it should.

It is not technically difficult to add the above features to docbook2X,
since it is all written in XSLT now.  It could be done in little chunks
just as if you are customizing a DocBook-to-HTML XSLT stylesheet.
Unfortunately, the documentation on customizing docbook2X
is quite scant.

It would help (in terms of motivation) if people would send
me real documents that use these whizbang features
and say "I want this Texinfo manual to look nice."
I have received such requests in the past, but unfortunately
people have probably been scared away by docbook2X "crashes"
that I did not fix in a timely manner (until the last release).

-- 
Steve Cheng 
鄭君博

docbook2X: <URL:http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/>


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