Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: texi converter

[David Merrill <david@lupercalia.net>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:22:18PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> Does anyone know of a texinfo to docbook conversion utility? I
> searched Google and found only plenty of discussion and others who
> wanted one, but no gold!
> 
> So, assuming there just isn't one, I started one. Well, sort of. I
> already have a converter that goes from a wiki-style text format to
> DocBook, so I am taking advantage of that as an intermediary step. I'm
> trying to abstract as much of the tag replacement as possible and will
> use a data file to define them, so it's possible that it wouldn't take
> too horribly much effort to add additional export formats, including
> direct to DocBook and even HTML, although that's a solved problem
> mostly.
> 
> I just wanted to let you know what I'm doing, and make sure I'm not
> duplicating effort. I will post again when I have something ready to
> test. It will probably be a week or so, maybe two or three depending
> on how much time my other projects suck.

Remember this? Well, it is "complete" and ready for use. Undoubtedly
there are bugs to shake out, and I need to go through and do some code
cleanup to remove "warts", but if you want to look at it, it's in the
LDP cvs. You can get it via cvsview.linuxdoc.org.

BTW, I aborted the middle step, and it's a direct Texinfo to DocBook
4.1.2 converter. Oh, and it's called texi2db.

It has been tested on about a dozen of the GNU manuals, and on the
Jargon File.

I'm on the list, but I don't follow it very much, so if you want a
reply cc me personally on any mail.

Thanks,

-- 
David C. Merrill                         http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project                   david@lupercalia.net
Lead Developer                             http://www.linuxdoc.org

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