Re: [Fink-devel] SGML/XML packages.

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

At 2:45 Uhr -0800 31.10.2001, Sasha Zucker wrote:
>Hello fink developers,
>
>I have had great success setting up a publishing system using 
>openjade, docbook xml 4.1.2, and norman walsh's docbook stylesheets. 
>I think this would make a great addition to fink, and it would allow 
>fink developers to write and publish documentation for fink. So, I 
>am volunteering to set up the packages for the following:
>
>docbook-241		- DocBook 2.4.1 DTDs
>docbook-300		- DocBook 3.0.0 DTDs
>docbook-310		- Docbook 3.1.0 DTDs
>docbook-400		- DocBook 4.0.0 DTDs
>docbook-410		- DocBook 4.1.0 DTDs
>docbook-xml		- DocBook XML 4.1.2 DTDs

Maybe also add a virtual package "docbook-dtd" that will install all 
of these. Or maybe just put them all into one package, they do not 
conflict with other, and it's not much overhead.


>dsssl-docbook-modular   - Norman Walsh's dsssl stylesheets for DocBook

Could be a seperate package


>html			- HTML DTDs
...
>linuxdoc                - Linuxdoc DTDs
...
>xhtml			- XHTML DTDs

Either put them in seperate packages like "html-dtd", or make a big 
"dtds" package with all of them.


>iso8879			- ISO 8879 entity sets for SGML

Isn't this required by openjade for any work? I.e. this sounds as if 
it should be in the openjade package itself.


>jadetex			- combines openjade and tex to 
>generate ps and pdf
...
>mkcatalog		- tool that edits sgml catalog files
>sgmltools-lite		- python frontend to openjade

Seperate paxkages.



>
>Once a number of these packages work, I can make a task-sgml (like 
>Debian's: http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/task-sgml.html) 
>medtapackage that installs all the stuff needed to do ork in sgml.

That would be what fink calls a "virtual package" :) But I must say 
that "task-sgml" is IMHO a pretty bad name, it doesn't convey much 
meaning to me...


>  task-sgml-dev 
>(http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/task-sgml-dev.html) would be 
>the next step. But, this is good for a start.
>
>These package names are taken from the BSD ports collection - should 
>I be using package names from the Debian package collection?

No, come up with better ones if you can :)


>
>Almost all of these packages will be matter of copying files to 
>different locations (under %p/share/sgml ), not a whole lot of 
>compiling. In fact, the only package that requires compiling of any 
>sort is jadetex (which requires both openjade and tetex). I haven't 
>gotten sgmltools to work yet, but it's just a python frontend to 
>openjade.
>
>Let me know if you have any suggestions or if anyone else is already 
>working on this stuff.

Looks all OK to me.



Max
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