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Re: Mailutils new competitor
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Jeff Bailey |
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Re: Mailutils new competitor |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:56:33 -0800 |
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:23:50PM -0500, Sam Roberts wrote:
> I'm a huge docbook fan, we converted all of our docs at the
> last company I worked at into it (though not auto-generated)
> and we could produce great ps,html,QNX helpviewer, and pdf,
> which pretty much dwarfed the capabilities of 10,000 dollar
> toolkits being used by all kinds of huge companies. Very
> satisifying. My only gripe was the lack of .info format, and
> then just before I left I found a reference to somebody
> have written some kind of processor to generate that, but
> I never got a chance to give it a try.
I've looked at docbook a couple of times. I don't know if I'm just
looking in the wrong places, but there don't seem to be many tools to use
the files when you're done. Like a Free docbook->postscript converter.
> I confess to getting a fair way on a C/C++ yacc grammer
> for a doc generator, after looking at the doc++ src code
> and seeing some of the kind of C++ that convinces people
> C++ is a bad thing, and it being unsupported, and under
> a weird set of copyrights, etc.
Doesn't GCC use yacc for it's parsing? It might be easiest to start with
what they have and remove the pieces that aren't needed.
> That said, doxygen
> is GPL (I think) and is being maintained and developed,
> and I'd take a look at it before redoing it, I know
> the guy who maintains the debian package, and he's
> a huge sgml fan, so who knows whats coming down the pipe.
Thanks. I'll look around.
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