Re: Exciting news about the Subversion Handbook...

On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 07:17 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:

> Some nice news, everyone: O'Reilly & Associates will be publishing
> "Subversion: The Definitive Guide", based on the Handbook sitting in
> our tree.

rock on! i was wondering how long it would take for that to happen ;-)

> So over the next few days, they'll be importing the sources of the new
> Guide, which contains all the material in the Handbook plus more.
> Note that the Guide is written in DocBook XML, so those who want to
> build the documentation themselves will have to install a few more
> tools (I've already done it, it's not hard). The DocBook DTD is quite
> easy to learn, and if you had any doubts whether it's worth switching,
> they will be erased when you see the new PDF/PostScript output. It's
> *beautiful*, a whole different universe from what we were getting from
> Texinfo.

excellent! having our documentation in docbook format has always been
something i've wanted to see. the output from docbook tools is light
years cooler looking than anything texinfo can provide.

i guess now i know why you guys were trying to get suggestions in #svn
on how to get docbook stuff set up that time ;-)

-garrett

-- 
garrett rooney                    Remember, any design flaw you're
rooneg@electricjellyfish.net      sufficiently snide about becomes
http://electricjellyfish.net/     a feature.       -- Dan Sugalski
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