[Po4a-devel] Re: [Po4a-commits] "po4a/doc po4a.7.pod,1.38,1.39"

[Martin Quinson]

You left the next paragraph saying that texinfo is not supported either. Is
it on purpose? I seem to remember that you were quite close to success on
that front...

Mt.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 05:20:59PM +0000, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> Update of /cvsroot/po4a/po4a/doc
> In directory haydn:/tmp/cvs-serv1818/doc
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	po4a.7.pod 
> Log Message:
> XML is no more unsupported. This paragraph comes from the time when there
> was no Xml module, and the Sgml module was the only way to support XML.
> 
> The XML module works nicely with the aptitude man page and manual. the
> removal of this warning may be needed for the aptitude maintainer to adopt
> po4a.
> 
> 
> Index: po4a.7.pod
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/po4a/po4a/doc/po4a.7.pod,v
> retrieving revision 1.38
> retrieving revision 1.39
> diff -u -d -r1.38 -r1.39
> --- po4a.7.pod	13 Nov 2005 12:44:58 -0000	1.38
> +++ po4a.7.pod	11 Mar 2006 17:20:56 -0000	1.39
> @@ -189,16 +189,11 @@
>  
>  =head2 Unsupported formats
>  
> -Unfortunately, po4a still lacks support for several major documentation
> -formats. The more preeminent may be XML, since this becomes more and more
> -used in open-source documentation. The sgml module can provide some limited
> -support to it (mainly working when you don't actually use xml specificities
> -in your document ;). We are currently working on a better support here, and
> -thing may change in a near future. In the meanwhile, if po4a really don't
> -fulfill your needs, you may want to check the poxml project. It is similar
> -to po4a and deals rather decently with docbook xml documentation. Unfortunately,
> -it cannot deal with any other format for now. And of course it is ways less
> -cool than po4a ;)
> +Unfortunately, po4a still lacks support for several documentation formats.
> +
> +The mdoc format, used by the BSD man pages (they are also quite common on
> +Linux), is still not supported, which can prevent you from translating all
> +your man pages with po4a.
>  
>  TeXinfo is the other big miss of po4a at that time. All the GNU documentation
>  is written in this format (that's even one of the requirement to become an
> 
> 
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