Xkb api

[Russell Shaw]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>> It would be useful to have an xorg policy to exclude proprietory
>> file formats that don't have free converters.
> 
> That's our intent going forward - this is legacy documentation
> written in the X Consortium days when all the members were companies
> paying tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege and framemaker
> licenses were not an issue.   We've talked about converting all the
> docs to a common format like DocBook XML, but no one has volunteered
> to work on such a project - once they do, we have had volunteers with
> FrameMaker licenses offer to export the FrameMaker docs to a format
> that can be converted to something more generally useful.
> 
>> This sort of crap
>> doesn't happen with gpl projects.
> 
> Crap happens with all projects, regardless of license, it's just
> different forms of crap.

Atleast i can deal with most crap without having to pay for some
converter;)

I was going to convert the xkb docs into docbook-xml, but i've only
done a small amount of docbook, so i started converting it to html,
when i found those extra filemaker files. I'm still looking for a
cheap or free CD of filemaker 5.

If i can be certain that all the information in:

   xc/doc/specs/XKB/Proto/
   xc/doc/specs/XKB/XKBlib/

is in:

   xc/doc/hardcopy/XKB/XKBproto.ps
   xc/doc/hardcopy/XKB/XKBlib.ps

then that would be ok. That looks quite likely, so i'll
just assume that regardless.