Re: Small document and sample HTML and DocBook

[Noah Slater]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:52:37PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> strict HTML doesn't have <u> or <font>, not width in table...
>
> I attach the result of the use of http://validator.w3.org/
> with a strict dtd, and the original file produced by texi2html.
> With Transitional, it is valid.

Ah, that makes sense. In the long run, moving to strict is probably good though.

> > I have been working on a default stylesheet for my GNU manual that balances
> > æsthetics with readability and I would love to contribute this to texi2html 
> > and
> > work with you on getting it broadly useful for distribution.
>
> I am not that much interested in the stylesheets themselves, but
> rather in having appropriate class attributes in the output to let
> anybody do its own stylesheet.

Of course, very important.

> That being said shipping .css files to show examples of use would be nice,
> even more if the output is nice ;-)

Great, I would love to help design the default CSS for texi2html.

> > Not sure what this means. How can I help out?
>
> Myabe this is not the answer you are looking for but, as you already
> know, the idea is to replace C makeinfo with texi2html. For that texi2html
> has to converge to makeinfo to be strictly compatible. This, in turn,
> implies:

Ah, yes... this all sounds good -- but is too much for me to really get involved
with while I am making the push for my own GNU Project. However, I would love to
be involved in the latter stages of finalising the CSS class name hooks and
default stylesheets.

Where would the DocBook work sit on that timeline?

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