Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: documentation as info

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-09-17 14:55:54 +0100 Mark A. Flacy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Even so, I use DocBook for my documentation and really don't see what 
> all
> the whining is about.

I agree that you do not understand the complaints.  It seemed to be 
that DocBook (and especially the XML variant) are not the best markup 
language for documentation production.  Of course, "best" is 
subjective and it seems that there are few features to be gained by 
using DocBook over Tom's system, yet it would introduce new hoops to 
jump through to get that little gain.

The responses for DocBook so far seemed to comment on charsets and 
tools.  Character encoding is trivial to specify and most people have 
to download large tools to handle DocBook.  Maybe Tom's tools need 
improvement/porting to be friendlier, but that looks like a task of 
about the same difficulty as recreating it all in DocBook.  Then 
again, I'd still like to see independent documentation under a free 
software licence and if the proponent of that wants to use DocBook, 
they can choose the format.

Maybe I don't get the full scope of the complaints or the responses 
either.

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MJR/slef     My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.