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[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Vincent Danen wrote:

> * Vincent Danen <vdanen at annvix.org> [2006-06-01 16:10:13 -0600]:
>
>>> Personally, I would go for the asciidoc format, and I'll even take what
>>> you started there and work on it, and the others, as time permits.  I do
>>> have a week and a half off here, and because I'm taking advantage of
>>> apt-rpm for Annvix now, I'd like to contribute something back (and my
>>> stronger suit is documentation, rather than development).
>>>
>>> So unless someone yells "hell no", I'll start on this.  I'll try to do
>>> as much as I can with a bed-resting wife and four-year old daughter so I
>>> can't promise a quick work, but I'll try to have at least some of this
>>> done and ready to contribute back this weekend.
>>
>> Good lord... I'm getting about a bajillion xsl-related errors trying to
>> compile this thing with "a2x -f manpage apt-get.txt".  Did you have to
>> do anything special to get this thing running?
>
> Geez... the problem is apparently too-new versions of libxml, xsltproc,
> etc.  I've managed to make it work on Mandriva 10.2 (sigh).  Anyways,
> more to come.  =)

I got a bunch of scary errors from it as well on FC 5, what worked out of 
the box however was 'xmlto man apt-get.txt'

Anyway you might want to wait a bit before you start rewriting everything 
in that format, I'm very much undecided still on where to go with this.

 	- Panu -