ANNOUNCEMENT: New docbook-tools packages

[Eric Bischoff <ebisch at cybercable dot tm dot fr>]

Hi all,

The DocBook-tools have been repackaged at

	ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/new-trials

They have been becoming more and more stable since Mark's
latest announcement. Hopefully we will move them to
"docware" directory soon.

1) Changes
----------

Changes to the external packages:
- Stylesheets: 1.44 => 1.54
- DTD: was 3.0 and 3.1, added DocBook 4.0 and 4.1,
  one can install only the one(s) he/shee needs
- jadetex: 2.7 => 2.20

Changes to the docbook-utils:
- modularity: separated
  o the input format drivers
  o the main program
  o the output format drivers
  (one could even use another frontend than DocBook!)
- support for man and info output
- auto-detection of the needed catalogs
- stabilized autoconf/automake support initiated by Mark
(thanks a million
  times). As a side effect, the doc (man and info pages)
builds with a
  simple "make -f Makefile.cvs" at tarball generation time
- docbook-utils.dsl is now used as the default style sheet.
  It's like cygnus-common.dsl in the old docbook-tools, but
with the
  following advantages:
  o you can use your own customized stylesheet if you don't
like this one
  o your stylesheet does not need rely on HTML and PRINT
entities
  o you can use Norm's stuff "out of the box"
- new sgmldiff script
  (useful to see if a translation of a docbook file respects
the markup)

New package: perl-SGMLSpm 1.03ii

Every package has been made conformant to the LSB proposal
for SGML/XML

2) Kown problems
----------------

Jadetex 2.20 seems to require to update "hyperref" package
on old distros. I'm still investigating this with Sebastian
Rahtz' help. In the meantime, both jadetex 2.7 and jadetex
2.20 are provided.

Those new packages are only for i386 and ppc architectures
at the time being, and only for Linux RPM-based systems with
a RedHat-compatible directory tree structure. They rebuild
easily on other platforms (they auto-detect the directory
tree, they are linked statically, etc...), so please rebuild
them and send them to distributions maintainers if you have
the time to do that. For example, Caldera packages are
already available on Caldera's FTP mirrors.

The psgml binary package for i386 is a bit outdated. It
shouldn't change a lot of things. Any volunteer please
rebuild it on an intel machine with RedHat-compatible
directory tree.

3) Miscellaneous
----------------

Not done yet: Mark Johnson's proposal to support XML in
psgml
              all that is in the TODO list

If you would like to participate to the development of the
docbook-utils package, please subscribe to
docbook-utils@bazar.conectiva.com.br (there's another list
for the development of the DocBook-tools distribution).

-- 
 Éric Bischoff   -   mailto:ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr
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