From fc4ef794223f9189d3007a1c5a94ec50d71ef605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabor Pali Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 06:21:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Fixes in the Q2 DocBook entry Submitted by: bjk, wblock --- .../news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml index cd3bf0ccc6..09f505cdc4 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml @@ -425,29 +425,29 @@ -

The Documentation Project has been behind with the used - standards until recently when we switched to a real XML toolchain - and DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsoleted +

The Documentation Project has been using old versions of markup + standards until recently when we switched to a real XML + toolchain and DocBook 4.5. However, we still depend on obsolete technologies — DSSSL and Jade. Besides, DocBook 5.0 - provides a cleaner markup and some nice new features.

+ provides cleaner markup and some nice new features.

The objective of this project is to upgrade the documentation set to DocBook 5.0 and to find a way to properly render our - sources without using DSSSL since the DSSSL stylesheets are + sources without using DSSSL, since the DSSSL stylesheets are discontinued and cannot render DocBook 5.0. The documentation sources have already been successfully transformed to DocBook - 5.0 and the development of the rendering process is under + 5.0 and updates to the rendering process are under development. The common opinion among &os; developers is that Java is a heavy dependency that should be avoided. This has suggested the transformation of DocBook sources to TeX and use TeX as a rendering backend. There are two ways to do this; the sources can be transformed either directly or through the XSL FO - output generated by the stylesheets that the DocBook Project - provides. The latter approach has been chosen as a preferred + output generated by the stylesheets provided for the DocBook Project. + The latter approach has been chosen as a preferred way since it better fits the existing documentation infrastructure and provides easier customization.

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This project is generously founded by The &os; Foundation.

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This project is generously funded by The &os; Foundation.