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From: David Shakaryan <omp@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:49:48
Message-Id: 45ECE423.3020800@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting by "Jan Kundrát"
1 Jan Kundrát wrote:
2 > Josh Saddler wrote:
3 >> Technical point here -- the devmanual has never been in GuideXML; it was
4 >> converted from RST into docbook.
5 >
6 > Was it? IIRC it was a custom GuideXML-like format, but certainly not a
7 > Docbook. A quick glance at the Docbook DTD [1] and the devmanual itself
8 > [2] seems to confirm that...
9
10 The following excerpt from the 'Contributing to This Document' page [1]
11 states that it is DevBook, not DocBook or GuideXML, although it appears
12 to be similar to the latter.
13
14 "This document is produced using the DevBook XML build system. You can
15 download a snapshot of the system as well as the relevant XML files from
16 Subversion. You can also view the XML of any page by replacing
17 index.html with text.xml in the URL. If you'd rather just work with
18 plain text, that's fine too — the formatting can be easily done by
19 someone else (meaning, us)."
20
21 [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/appendices/contributing/index.html
22
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24 David Shakaryan
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