[Xorg] DocBook SGML/XML manual pages...

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Wed May 5 16:11:37 PDT 2004


Keith Packard wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is already a way to handle Unix manual pages
> > in DocBook/{SGML|XML} format ? There are now a couple of DocBook manual
> > pages in the tree and I'd like to add more, but IMHO we need some
> > official way to handle such stuff then...
> 
> I don't think there are imake rules to handle docbook files.  However, we
> should start incorporating the autotool build files into the X.Org tree,
> and we should certainly find a way to deal with docbook files in that
> environment.

Erm... when was the decision made to introduce "autotool" stuff into the
X.org tree (which implies SERIOUS legal questions when the Xorg tree
starts to depend on non-X.org/MIT-licensed stuff) ?

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Bye,
Roland

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