Re: release notes diff

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:06:13 +0200

Robert Collins wrote:

> linuxdoc uses sgml2 foo - but performed the postscript conversion
> properly, where the sgml2latex crapped out. The .txt version for both
> linuxdoc and sgml2txt has ANSI escape sequences in it - I guess I can
> whip up a sed filter to strip that if we want to generate a txt version.
> More reliably we could use docbook instead of the linuxdoc DTD, but the
> programmers Guide uses linuxdoc, and I was simply following suite.

See man sgml2txt... there is an option to clean this up.

 sgml2txt --filter source.sgml

> Sure. I think we should pre-build it and have the Makefile there as a
> convenience for us. As for the file in the root dir - I was thinking a
> symlink to the correct version "I.e. ReleaseNotes.html ->
> doc/releasenotes/release-2.5.html", and we simply update the symlink on
> each release.

Fine, provided there never is a need to CVS control this.. (CVS does not
handle links)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Aug 29 2002 - 08:06:16 MDT

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