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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:10:51 +0100 |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:55:15AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:04:17PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:01:59AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> > > Why not use DocBook instead? It's far more flexible.
> >
> > (1) It's butt-ugly, like all sgml derivatives.
>
> that's not true! XML is great! (XSLT, on the other hand, is butt ugly,
> but gets the job done)
XML docbook, now that's ugly.
Docbook _is_ verbose, and the solution to this is the set of
contraction features which sgml has and xml does not.
> > Its extremely verbose
> > tagging syntax puts the emphasis on the tags and not on the text.
> > Indeed, it seems to be _worse_ than `traditional' sgml; at least the
> > docbook source I've seen wraps _every_ paragraph in <para>...</para> --
> > nice for the document processing program, not so nice for the document
> > author.
I never found it appreciably problematic.
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documentation as info (was Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.1 plans), Christian Lynbech, 2003/09/16
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Denys Duchier, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Zack Brown, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Miles Bader, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Zack Brown, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info,
Andrew Suffield <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tupshin Harper, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tupshin Harper, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tupshin Harper, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tom Lord, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tupshin Harper, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tom Lord, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tupshin Harper, 2003/09/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info, Tom Lord, 2003/09/16