[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206

[Miles Bader]

Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> (3) It's nice if the doc sources are reasonably attractive as plain
> text.  And then derive all the formats you like from that.  Which
> would suggest I should be a bigger docbook fan than I actually am but
> I'm not (as a source text form), so there.

Eh, how does that follow?  Docbook sources are horribly ugly -- they're
_so_ verbose that it's often quite a chore to even find the underlying
text for all the layers of (verbose) tagging.  I've never written a
document in docbook, but for the same reason it looks like pure drudgery
to write if you're not using rather heavy editor magic.

I would never consider docbook an acceptable source form as long as
people expect to able to reasonably edit the sources as raw text.

-Miles
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