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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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The list has moved.
by MJ Ray 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

This is just a final test to confirm that the list has moved to the new server at lists.alug.org.uk and changed its name to "main". I'll update the web site and add forwarding to take care of it now. You will need to visit the web site (address below) to reset any special options. We have moved between versions of mailman, so I haven't kept option settings. Regular/digest was kept, though. Apologies to digest members for the extra email. ;-)

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Re: [Alug] Multi-Media Publishing - Print and HTML
by MJ Ray 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

Steve Fosdick <fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk> writes: > What do people currently recommend in order to publish the same > document both in printable form, and as HTML? Two options: LaTeX with dvipdfm and tex4ht's htlatex; XML with XSLT and FOP. Which is better? I still don't know. The LaTeX tools are quite a bit easier to get started with and better tested, but they don't keep content and layout apart.

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Re: [Alug] The list has moved.
by MJ Ray 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

Steve Fosdick <fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk> writes: > I take it moving the list is so we no longer rely on UEA for > anything now that you are no longer studying there. That is the main reason. I haven't actually controlled the server the lists were running on since last October. Now that Brett has left UEA too, that server will pass into the unknown and it seemed a good idea to move. > On whose generosity do we now depend, both for the mailing lis > and for the web site? Martyn Drake, an ALUG member who has moved to London.

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Multi-Media Publishing - Print and HTML
by Steve Fosdick 26 Aug '01

26 Aug '01

What do people currently recommend in order to publish the same document both in printable form, and as HTML? I need to be able to be able to control the style of the print and HTML versions. The print version should ideally be available as RTF or as PDF and the HTML output should use a stylesheet (CSS). Both formats will need to be able to include images. I am currently using a word processor to do the print version and using paragraphs styles so that HTML conversion is pretty easy, but there is still a little fixing up to do at the end. What I am hoping to be able to do instead is to write in a content language (XML or SGML) and then convert that to the relavent output format with an automatic processor that applies a stylesheet. So, what do you recommend? Steve.

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Re: [Alug] sabcmd
by MJ Ray 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

oms101(a)freeuk.com writes: > [...] but in the end I shall have to install sabcmd if I want to > test things, also I am interested in the mechanisms of the make > files. Well, I'm sure you can find and install sablotron then ;-) That's not really meant as a harsh reply, but providing working cross-distribution binaries when at least one major distributor is still sticking two fingers up to the FHS isn't a game I want to play when I don't have to. Hope you understand, MJR.

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Re: [Alug] sabcmd
by MJ Ray 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

oms101(a)freeuk.com writes: > could you please put sabcmd in the cvs system as then it will be > simpler to setup and get started with the web site. If this is a bad > idea due to the size of sabcmd why because we have all got to use it > to produce alug web pages. so it might as well come all in one > peace. sabcmd is part of sablotron. It is not necessary to install sablotron to produce alug web pages. This is explained on the page http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/background/cvs-access.html but I should link to the sablotron site somewhere. Once again: It is not necessary. Indeed, I don't have it installed here.

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ALUG artwork
by MJ Ray 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

Just to remind you that there's a poster for the next meeting at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/alug/syleham20016.pdf and to announce that there's a page of ALUG banners, buttons etc at http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/articles/2001a/promoart.html

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Re: [Alug] Announce ALUG 2001.5
by MJ Ray 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > Oh, OK, we're looking for a new talk, people ;-) I suppose a "What is Debian?" talk would be a good one. There's lots of info available on it. Anyone up to deliver this? Just a short one...

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Re: [Alug] UEA Meetings
by MJ Ray 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > How about: [...] > a November meeting organised by Simon Parkes at Red Lodge Simon, is this a possibility? If so, I'll include it in the poster I'm throwing together. Red Lodge is in Suffolk, isn't it?

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