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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: pictures in sgml documentation
From:       Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () dalheimer ! de>
Date:       1998-12-15 15:21:05
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Eric Bischoff wrote:
> 
> Kalle Dalheimer a écrit:
> 
> > Didn't we explicitly change resp. extend the DTD in order to include
> > images? Our documentation team should be more knowledgable in this
> > respect. (CC: kde-18n-doc)
> 
> It is explained in http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/howto-translate.html :
> 
> linuxdoc DTD does not allow pictures, but it works. Just include <img src=...
> just like in SGML.
> 
> > Also, since our DTD is based on the Linuxdoc DTD and the Linuxdoc (aka
> > sgmltools) team has switched to a DocBook-based DTD, perhaps we should
> > follow them for KDE 2.0. Their new DTD definitely supports images and
> > lots of other stuff. I am using it a lot for my authoring and
> > translating tasks.
> 
> Good idea (already suggested by Chuck ;-) ). Are there some tools to
> automatically convert existing docs from linuxdoc to docbook? Or is it enough to
> just change the name of the DTD in the first line of the doc?

No, since the tags are different, but the new SGMLTools contain a
backend that outputs DocBook-Code. I haven't tested how good it is,
though.

Kalle

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