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| The Alternative Orange (Vol. 5): An Alternative Student Newspaper | ||
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The Alternative Orange was funded by the Student Government Association and Graduate Student Association of Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York).
Newspapers were created using PageMaker on a Macintosh. These issues were checked against an original copy for accuracy: (, , ,).
The document type declaration in the source XML document reads: <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBk XML V3.1.3//EN" "dtd/docbook-xml/docbookx.dtd" [ … ]> (The version distributed with GNU/Linux Debian 3, a.k.a. "Woody", is 3.1.7.)
Hyper-text Markup Language (HTML) files found on Internet were derived from an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document using James Clark's jade (an implementation of DSSSL style language). Norman Walsh's modular DSSSL stylesheets were used to output HTML (with slight modifications--write cymbala @lafn.org for details).
Command used to generate HTML was: “jade -d /usr/lib/dsssl/stylesheets/docbook/html/docbook.dsl -t sgml /usr/lib/sgml/declaration/xml.decl FILENAME.xml” (Debian “slink” 2.1). With version 2.2 of Debian (“potato”) the stylesheet is at “/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl”. With version 3 of Debian (“woody”) the stylesheet is at “/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/html/docbook.dsl”.
Jade was executed with switch "-V %use-id-as-filename%" to over-ride the modular DocBook Stylesheet's default value (see also dbparam.dsl). This caused jade to use the ID= value from an article plus “.html” when naming output file.
The source XML document was composed on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/50CX laptop with an 486 processor, 16 megabytes memory and an 810 meg. hard-drive. (In 2003, Volumes 4 and 5 were composed on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 3260 with a Pentium memory chip.) Free software was used for composition. From specific to general, that software includes PSGML (an Emacs major editing mode to facilitate SGML & XML markup written by Lennart Staflin), GNU Emacs (by Richard Stallman), and operating system GNU/Linux (in particular, the one-and-only volunteer distribution with a social contract: Debian). These Debian packages were installed: (, , ,).