Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] batmand-howto conversation

Sven Eckelmann
2009-01-25T15:15:40Z

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On Friday 23 January 2009 01:26:18 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
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> Hm, sounds interesting, but I see different problems. First thing is the
> different copyright. You specified GPL2 for the batman(-adv) documentation
> and Wesley released his stuff as CC-by-nc-sa-3.0. These licenses aren't
> compatible in the way that you relicense his work under the GPL2 [2], but
> you can ask him if he relicenses his work.
Ok, I asked him and he agreed.

> The second thing is that somebody has to rewrite it into XML Docbook. This
> isn't that bad but I will definitely not doing anything like that until
> somebody explained me why you are using a SGML Docbook tool to convert a
> XML docbook to your target format. When you try it on another distribution
> than debian etch/lenny you will propably receive an error (try for example
> one of our public accessible machines at tuc).
Pushed fix in a clone of your git repo and requested merge.

> And maybe somebody can answer the question what is the right way to do the
> conversation job? I found different references that their is/was some xsl
> stylesheet to convert them to pdf but I don't want to fiddle about xsltproc
> and different xsl paths on each plattform. I tried xmlto some time ago
> (small shell script which does all the xslt stuff for me), but the output
> was quite bad and it had problems with the images (hm, reminds me on the
> fact that the current way the images are handled inside batman-adv-doc is a
> hack too).
Seems to be better now. xmlto with fo output +fop isn't that bad. Their are
problems with images when you try to generate pdf directly but generating ps
and then pdf works fine. I read that renderx xep works better, but it is a
commercial tool.

Regards,