[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#334638: docbook-utils: docbook2* not including email

[Neil Roeth]

On Oct 19, Kai Hendry (hendry at iki.fi) wrote:
 > Package: docbook-utils
 > Version: 0.6.14-1
 > Severity: normal
 > 
 > I subscribed to docbook-help to try get an answer.
 > 
 > http://tinyurl.com/8hmms
 > OR
 > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200510/msg00028.html
 > 
 > Concludes with Michael Smith recommending not to do it with jw!
 > 
 > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200510/msg00030.html
 > 

That was not the only conclusion, I followed up to that with an alternative,
which was to create a customized DSSSL stylesheet:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200510/msg00054.html

 > With this method I can get my email in the HTML and PDF format. But both
 > these formats are not as nice looking as the docbook2* generated ones...

You could also submit an enhancement for the docbook-dsssl stylesheets to add
the affiliation element to the variable article-titlepage-recto-elements.

IMHO, this is not a docbook-utils bug, but that's the maintainer's call.

 > 
 > -- System Information:
 > Debian Release: testing/unstable
 >   APT prefers unstable
 >   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
 > Architecture: i386 (i686)
 > Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
 > Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
 > 
 > Versions of packages docbook-utils depends on:
 > ii  docbook-dsssl           1.79-3           modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
 > ii  jadetex                 3.13-6           generator of printable output from
 > ii  links                   0.99+1.00pre12-1 Character mode WWW browser
 > ii  lynx                    2.8.5-2          Text-mode WWW Browser
 > ii  perl                    5.8.7-5          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
 > ii  sgmlspl                 1.03ii-31        SGMLS-based example Perl script fo
 > ii  sp                      1.3.4-1.2.1-45   James Clark's SGML parsing tools
 > ii  w3m                     0.5.1-4          WWW browsable pager with excellent
 > 
 > Versions of packages docbook-utils recommends:
 > pn  docbook-xml                   <none>     (no description available)
 > 
 > -- no debconf information
 > 

-- 
Neil Roeth