Re: LinuxDoc DTD on NT

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich dot Windl at rz dot uni-regensburg dot de>]

Having bought Norman's book on DocBook that comes with a CD I had
hoped to get the tools needed to run DocBook with NT as Norman seems
to use that OS as well. Unfortunately there were no free tools on the
CD (like psgmls, ntemacs, etc). Also there were no special
instructions how to set up such an environment. After all it's much
easier to get it all for Linux. Maybe that's the reason why some
people say so. If you like the pain of downloading, compiling
installing and configurin you can do it in Windows as well.

Ulrich


On 2 Feb 00, at 18:23, J Horacio MG wrote:

> El mié, 02 de feb de 2000, a las 12:08:18 -0500, Marty Connor dijo:
> > On 2/2/2000 4:40 AM Peter Ring PRI@cddk.dk wrote:
> > >don't blame the list for bigotry from individual members
> >
> > I understand the point you are making, and I must say, as a mostly silent
> > participant of this list, and as a contributing member of a number of
> > other open-source project lists, this list in general has been a
> > relatively cold, unfriendly place.
>
> Cold as in an empty place, yes; but cold and unfriendly... well, no, I
> don't think so.  Since the project is at a stand there seems to be not
> much to discuss here.
>
> > There are indeed helpful and kind people on this list. There are also
> > (IMHO) needlessly abrasive people who seem to take pleasure in keeping
> > others out, and slapping people down, when a gentle push or a helping
> > hand would do better.
>
> Sadly, as in everywhere in life.  There's the kind of people who remind
> me of the army, and who think that a new comer to an specific subject
> equals an ignorant (while, in these cases, it's usually all the way
> round).  They can't see that today's freshman may be tomorrow's expert,
> probably due to the fact that they were once freshmen but never got to
> be experts.
>
> > My point is that for an open-source project to prosper there needs to be
> > a sense of safety for new people, since only a small fraction of them
> > will decide to contribute in the best of cases.
>
> Then, perhaps giving the fundamentalists|veterans a bit of their own
> medicine would help.  They should understand that other OS's users are
> not guilty of whatever they may think makes it evil, but rather victims
> of it.  Or, they just don't feel like/want/... to bother with something
> they may not have time for.  Or... any other reason, whichever, but
> always right as they have, above all, a RIGHT TO CHOOSE, ie. FREEDOM.
>
> > Peter, I understand how you feel.
>
> Yes, my sympathies too.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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