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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:29:50 -0700
From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: CLL: A princely gift; now would be a good time to help
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:27:09AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 04:59:26AM -0700, TR NS wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, September 22, 2014 5:02:20 AM UTC-4, Robin Powell
> > wrote:
> > >
> [snip]
> > > The required software now is just docbook itself (on my Fedora
> > > system that's just "sudo yum install docbook5-style-xsl"), and
> > > the free/test version of Prince, and probably the DejaVu font,
> > > so it should be easy for people to help. 
> >
> > I am a little confused. What has changed? If docbook is still
> > being used, how did bringing Prince into the picture help?
> 
> The problem was always getting from docbook to PDF, and more
> specifically getting from docbook to both PDF and HTML without
> duplicating a *ton* of work.  The previous method was to turn the
> docbook into HTML and then do a ton of CSS customization work,
> *and also* turn docbook into LaTeX via dblatex and then do a ton
> of LaTeX customization work, frequently on exactly the same issues
> as the CSS.
> 
> With Prince, we turn the docbook into HTML, and then use one CSS
> for display and one for print.  The two CSS files even share much
> of their content.

Actually, the more important part: people who want to help now only
need to be able to work with CSS, which MANY MANY people here are
already familiar with, or the raw docbook, which is just a bunch of
tags like HTML just with different names.

So the pool of people who can potentially help out just increased
dramatically.

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