Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released

[Oleksandr Firsov]

Guys/girls What do You talking about?
doc tool, LaTex, etc... That is stone age terms.

I am not familiar with product discussed above, but for structured data
exist de-facto standard which used for such purposes.
This is XML( kind of SGML ) and some technology around.
    In few words, for such kind of docs you need DTD (structure definition
file ) , XML -formatted document and XSL transformation files.
    If noone familiar with DTD, there are tools to create it from sample
XML.
Then there are bunch of XML editors, which can use DTD for making edition
much easy.
Depend of target format (text, HTML, PDF, DOC, etc), should be created XSL
transformations.
For HTML and text, it is better to do it manually. But you can use automated
tools as well.

We are using this technology for web site and applications configuration.

I can tell more...
    SunS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew McNamara" <andrewm at object-craft.com.au>
To: "Rob Siemborski" <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.10 Released


> >I feel that moving back to only plaintext is a step backwards.  I don't
> >know much about SGML myself, so I'm not sure I'd want to be stuck
> >maintaining that, but it sounds interesting enough (and it would be nice
> >to have general tools for keeping the documentation formatted, instead of
> >worrying when htmlstrip would next break).
>
> You could do worse than look at the Python documentation. The production
> doco is current LaTeX with a bunch of custom macros. HTML, PDF, etc are
> generated off the master LaTex markup. There is a background project to
> use SGML (I think), but it's not there yet.
>
> Our company (not me personally) looked at doco tools a while back and came
> to the conclusion that LaTeX was still the best choice out of a bad lot -
> SGML was the next closest, although the tools were still rather imature.
>
> --
> Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
> http://www.object-craft.com.au/
>
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