Ekbert Mertens a 嶰rit :
>
> Regarding all those mails saying jadetex is not satisfying: Where is the
> advantage of jadetex against jadertf?
It directly generates DVI (then PS) suitable for books mass printing.
[...]
> In the beginning, I wondered whether we should switch to jadetex (I have no
> experience with tex, yet), but hearing you (and the others) we should not,
> should we?
Depends on your needs and constraints... ;-)
Camille.
> Regards
> Ekbert Mertens
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Camille B嶲nis [mailto:]
> > Sent: Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2000 10:42
> > To: docbook-apps
> > Cc: LDP; docbook-tools list
> > Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the
> > O'Reilly Open Source Convention]]
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > While reading the article at the end of that message, I wish
> > I had been
> > there.
> > Everyone seems to agree to use DocBook, very well. However, in the
> > opinion of the author himself, the jadetex processing tool is
> > not suited
> > for professional books.
> >
> > I am personally not really happy with jadetex and some others too I
> > know.
> > Do the other people here use it?
> > Are you happy with it?
> > Do you use something else?
> > Did you think in developing something else?
> >
> > I have unhopeful not the sufficient skills in TeX to initiate
> > it myself,
> > but we, at MandrakeSoft, are interested in participating in
> > the project
> > of developing a new solution. A completely rewritten "print"
> > stylesheet,
> > generating true LaTeX seems to be the solution.
> >
> > Camille.
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Dan York <>
> > Subject: [Fwd: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly
> > Open Source Convention]
> > Resent-From:
> > To: ldp-discuss <>
> >
> > FYI, this came in from O'Reilly... sounds like an interesting
> > meeting...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly Open
> > Source
> > Convention
> > Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:46:38 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Carmel Noah <>
> > To:
> >
> > On Sunday, July 16, O'Reilly sponsored an all-day pre-conference
> > meeting on improving the documentation that accompanies open source
> > software. Participants at the Open Documentation Summit included
> > representatives of open source documentation from the Linux
> > Documentation Project, GNOME, KDE, FreeBSD, BSDI, SourceForge, Samba,
> > OASIS, Los Alamos National Labs, Python, and Open Content.
> >
> > O'Reilly Editor-in-Chief Frank Willison reports on what came
> > out of the
> > meeting:
> >
> > http://www.oreilly.com/frank/oscon_summit.html
> >
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