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 _______________________________________________ Po4a-commits mailing list Po4a-commits(a)lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/po4a-commits