Re: Docbook tools

[Derek Simkowiak <dereks@kd-dev.com>]

> > I was planning to package all this stuff all together - exactly what
> > you have done at Cygnus.
> 
> Just to be clear on this point, all the credit for the DocBook packages
> should go to Mark Galassi, not Cygnus. 

	Mark:  THANK YOU!

	Before finding these packages, I hunted all over for various
packages which contained the DocBook DTD, the SGMLtools files, jade, other
stuff from Oasis, and even some custom in-house stuff from
O'Reilly&Associates.  Finding these packages was a godsend--not to mention
the tutorial (I'm a newbie at this).

	These packages are already linked from the
http://developer.gnome.org, and now it looks like they will become the
"standard" packages for the KDE team.  Also, I will tell my editor at
O'Reilly about this and they're likely to become the defacto for O'Reilly
authors who want to write in SGML/DocBook.

	In case it's still not clear: the work Mark is doing is incredibly
important and will become even moreso as more people start to write Gnome,
KDE, and O'Reilly documentation in SGML format.


> He has decided to keep maintaining them even though he has left Cygnus
> (he's now off playing rocket scientist :-).

	If it's not inappropriate to ask... what's the "rocket scientist"
project?  Something cool Mark can talk about?


--Derek