Re: Docbook patch
On 2005-08-10 15:36:16 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Tuesday, 09 August 2005 at 22:27, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > * The Table of Contents is on 2 levels only.
>
> um, feature? Do you really want a TOC entry for each of the hundreds
> of configuration variables?
Yes, this is useful when searching for variable names.
> > * Layout in Section 2.3.1.1 (Status Flags) is suboptimal:
> >
> > D
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> > message is deleted (is marked for deletion)
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> This seems to be pretty standard layout for definition lists, but I
> don't really love it either. There's an xsl option to use tables
> instead of definition lists for these entries, and it works great with
> w3m, but lynx predictably makes a mess.
In the html-to-text conversion, CSS would be the solution, but
unfortunately neither lynx nor w3m support them.
Perhaps html2text[*] from Martin Bayer, with a good html2textrc file?
* http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/
Otherwise, aren't there XSLT stylesheets to convert DocBook to
plain text directly?
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