From kde-devel  Wed Dec 19 00:30:55 2001
From: Daniel Stone <daniel () sfarc ! net>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:30:55 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: A great deal of SGML manpages
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:02:07PM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2001 08.05, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > For the Debian packages (I'm now the maintainer of
> > kde{admin,graphics,network,pim,ssh,utils}), I wrote a great deal of SGML
> > manpages, located at
> > http://piro.kabuki.sfarc.net/daniel/kde-2.2.2/manpages (and also in the
> > relevant packages). To compile them, run:
> > docbook-to-man foo.sgml > foo.1
> > (or .8, or whatever). I haven't written manpages where it wouldn't be
> > extremely useful (e.g. conduits, etc) yet; I'll do that later. The list
> > of manpages is appended.
> 
> Do you mind if I take these and convert them to DocBook XML in the main KDE 
> CVS, so they can be processed with KDE standard tools, and will go into the 
> normal translation channels?  

Feel free! I didn't post them so they could uselessly remain as SGML. ;)

> Regards, and thank you very much for the work!

No worries. It's just much more aesthetically pleasing than a screenful
of lintian "binary-without-manpage" errors. ;)

-- 
Daniel Stone						    <daniel@sfarc.net>
<pH0XpH1R3> man page ?
<akopps> phox: dd if=/dev/clue of=/dev/brain
<Tamahome> /dev/brain: filesystem corrupt
<Tamahome> consider immediate fsck
 
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