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The Alternative Orange was funded by the Student Government Association and Graduate Student Association of Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) from 1991 to 1997.
Newspapers were created using PageMaker on a Macintosh. These issues were checked against an original copy for accuracy: (, , ,) ... using this method: (...).
Some errors in volumes 3 through 5 (excluding issue No. 1 of Vol. 3) were caught by comparing HTML files from www.geocities.com/redtheory/AO/ with XML source files used to create this archive.
HTML files found on www.etext.info were derived from DocBook-XML documents (one for each volume) using James Clark's jade (an implementation of DSSSL style language). Norman Walsh's modular DSSSL stylesheets were used to output HTML from DocBook-XML (with modifications; look in subdirectory "dsssl" and write cymbala @lafn.org if you have any questions).
The document type declaration in the source XML document reads:
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBk XML V3.1.7//EN" "dtd/docbook-xml/docbookx.dtd" [ … ]>
This command was used to generate HTML, for example, Volume 3:
clear ; pushd ~/wget/www.etext.info/Politics/AlternativeOrange/3 ; jade -V %use-id-as-filename% -d /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/docbook.dsl -t sgml /usr/lib/sgml/declaration/xml.decl ao3.xml ; popd
The source XML document were first composed on a Compaq LTE ELITE 4/50CX laptop with an 486 processor, 16 megabytes memory and an 810 meg. hard-drive. Jade was able to output HTML on such a slow computer. In 2003, Volumes 4 and 5 were composed on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 3260 with a Pentium chip.
These free Debian GNU/Linux software packages were used:
docbook-xml (An XML representation of the DocBook DTD, which is sometimes referred to as DocBk XML.)
psgml (PSGML is a major mode for editing SGML documents.)
emacs (GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.)
sp (These tools are used to parse, validate, and normalize SGML and XML files.)
jade (Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language.)
bash (Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file.)
x-window-system (X Window System as developed by the XFree86 Project.)