[bt-devel] User Error!! Handbook - Trial docbook conversion of first time start

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi Fred!

I really like your work!
Do you want t CVS account with write access?

--Joachim

> > fred wrote:
> This morning I realized that I mailed the bad version of
> helpdialog.docbook yesterday.
>
> I also added another section, using question and answer tags rather than
> the table format.
>
>
> Fred Saalbach
>
> > Hello Joachim:
> >
> > The attachment is the bibletime 0.3 first time help screen in
> > DocBook.  It
> > parses with out errors on my machine.
> >
> > The attachment some changes from the original:
> >
> > <para> tags don't work properly inside of tables, so I removed them.
> >
> > Typographical errors were corrected.
> >
> > Some paragraphs don't read correctly in US english.  I changed these
> > slightly.  These seem to have had mixed english with german grammar.
> > Don't
> > apologize, my german is almost incomprehensible even to me.
> >
> > I split some compound words.  This might not be a correct in all
> > cases.  If
> > helpdialog.docbook is used later I may need to reconnect the ones that
> > are
> > module names.
> >
> > One oddity
> >
> > The style sheet places the KDesktop Environment logo and link in the
> > display
> > page header.  If we want to put something else there I think we will
> > need to
> > modify the style sheetset at
> > /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools/stylesheets/kde.dsl
> > I looked at these and think they are beyond by current skill level.
> > This is
> > probably not particularly important just now.
> >
> > When you have time please do a 'kdb2html helpdialog.docbook' and see
> > if the
> > output looks like it displays in the correct format.  I am not really
> > concerned with the content just yet, I am trying to make sure that the
> > output
> > form works.
> >
> > Note to mail list
> > If anyone else wants to try and see if helpdialog.docbook can be
> > processed
> > into HTML please do so.  The session looks somthing like this:
> >
> > [fks00@localhost DocBook]$  kdb2html  helpdialog.dockbook
> > jade -c /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools/catalog -c
> > /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat
> > -c
> > /etc/sgml/dsssl.cat -t sgml -d
> > /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools/stylesheets/kde.dsl#html
> > ../helpdialog.dockbook
> > [fks00@localhost DocBook]$
> >
> > If that does not work, you might try running openjade or any of the
> > sgmltools
> > on it if they are run using a styke sheet other than ../kde.dsl the
> > output
> > format will be different, but some sort of display should result.
> > This would
> > be a test of the software on your computer.  If this does not work,
> > add the
> > package sgmltools, and try again.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Fred saalbach

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