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Re: Documentation questions
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Ben Elliston |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation questions |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:21:17 -0400 (EDT) |
>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Savoye <address@hidden> writes:
Rob> Actually, while this used to be true, more and more projects are either
Rob> switching to SGML, or starting with it for new projects. While most of
the
Rob> older GNU packages do use texinfo, many of the newer ones don't. eCOS
used
Rob> SGML, which was my first introduction to it. Cygnus even helped develop
Rob> some of the Docbook tools we used for that project.
Can you give some examples? I've not seen any that I can recall.
Rob> Back in the beginning, DejaGnu had a TROFF format doc & manpage. Then
Rob> I rewrote it in texinfo, and now SGML. It's always been worth the
Rob> incremental improvements in documentation tools.
Except that the various forms of documentation get out of sync with
each other. Doesn't the current package contain a TROFF man page and
SGML documentation?
Rob> And the multiple format output is way better.
I agree with you there.
Rob> Now that I've found some good tools to make texi output from a Docbook
Rob> file, I'll probably use that to generate texi, and then info. As I
already
Rob> include the docs in ps, rtf, pdf, and html, I might as well add info to
the
Rob> list. Probably not for this release though.
Great!
B.
- Re: Documentation questions, (continued)
- Re: Documentation questions, Tom Tromey, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Rob Savoye, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Tom Tromey, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Rob Savoye, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Tom Tromey, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Rob Savoye, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Dan Kegel, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Bernd Petrovitsch, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Ben Elliston, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions, Rob Savoye, 2002/09/04
- Re: Documentation questions,
Ben Elliston <=
- Re: Documentation questions, Rob Savoye, 2002/09/04
RE: Documentation questions, Shrinivas Atre, 2002/09/23