Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation. - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation.
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Msg-id 20051115112341.GC25699@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation.  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation.  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation.  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: [pgsql-www] 8.1 PDF Documentation.  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I am still unclear why there is no more reliable SGML toolchain for PDF
> output after all these years.  Seems things have improved because we now
> have bookmarks, but still, why is this functionality not more mainstream.

There is no SGML toolchain because SGML has been abandoned as the
DocBook markup language.  The toolchain that everybody else uses is
based on XML DocBook.  It has been proposed that we abandon SGML and
jump to XML, but the idea has been shot down.  And it's possible to
convert our SGML to XML automatically and process it with the newer
toolchain.

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