Re: DOCBOOK: Docbook -> Text

[Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:33:10AM -0400, Dan York wrote:
> The next couple of weeks are crazy for me, but after that I am toying
> with the idea of creating a "text" series of XSLT stylesheets based
> on what Norm did with the HTML stylesheets.... as I, too, need to go
> to plain text for some things... so maybe several of us could work
> on that.

Last time I spoke to anyone about this I was told this was *hard*,
because there isn't a conventional way you can use XSLT to keep track of
where you on a line.  If you don't know where you are then it's tricky
to do word wrapping. . .

Have you tried "links" (as opposed to "lynx")?  Take a look at something
like

    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en/books/faq/book.txt.gz

to get a feel for the output quality.

N
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