Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> writes:

> "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:41AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:33:17AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> > > 1) what formats do you have in mind, and how would you watch them (for
>> > >    non-text formats) with tools in the base system
>> 
>> Isn't the source of the guide the xml-panacea in the meantime ?
>> Spit out some *roff output out of the xml source which can be 
>> rendered by the base text tools to more-or-less/text output, then.
>
> Yes XML->*roff is what we want here.  Does anybody here have experience
> with generating *roff from XML?  I know it's possible, just not sure how
> well a structured document like the Guide translates to *roff.

Disclaimer: I don't have experience with it, but I'll just add my
thoughts about it to the discussion. They *can* be far away from the
truth. ;-)

There are two aspects that I would like to point:
      1) As you mentioned, the NetBSD guide has a well defined
      structure. This won't fit in a man page well (groff_mdoc(7) is
      what I would accept at the maximum).
      I would expect DocBook-XML->info would work clearly well.
      2) Loading something as the NetBSD guide has it's constrains. I
      don't know how much, but I'm sure it will take some decent
      ammount of RAM + CPU time to get loaded.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>