Re: [docbook] TDG as PDF example

["Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@sideshowbarker.net>]

nico <nicolas.marsgui@libertysurf.fr>, 2008-01-19 17:11 +0100:

>  I've built a PDF version of TDG from the current SVN sources, and I'd like 
>  to make it publically available on the web, just as another example of the 
>  dblatex capabilities.
> 
>  My question is: do you mind if I make it online? If you want to give a look 
>  at the result before giving an answer you can find it at 
>  http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/example/tdg-dblatex.pdf.gz.

Both the DocBook 4 and DocBook 5 versions of TDG are now licensed
under the GNU Free Documentation License, so technically you don't
have to ask for permission to copy or distribute them or post them
online.

  http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/dbcpyright.html
  http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/dbcpyright.html

But Norm is the copyright holder for them (along with O'Reilly),
so if you really feel like you need to get permission, I think
you'd need to ask him.

Personally, I think it'd be great to have a dblatex-generated
version of the TDG online as a way to compare to the ones
generated from FO stylesheets and toolchain.

And the fact that dblatex is able to generate output from the TDG
sources seems to me to suggest it must be a pretty mature tool
now, and maybe even something worth considering and trying for
production use.

  --Mike

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