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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206
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Mark A. Flacy |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206 |
Date: |
03 Oct 2006 13:32:51 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
Miles>
Miles> Eh, how does that follow? Docbook sources are horribly ugly -- they're
Miles> _so_ verbose that it's often quite a chore to even find the underlying
Miles> text for all the layers of (verbose) tagging. I've never written a
Miles> document in docbook, but for the same reason it looks like pure drudgery
Miles> to write if you're not using rather heavy editor magic.
I have. I've never written a texinfo document (at all) but I cannot
imagine that to be an improvement over docbook.
Miles>
Miles> I would never consider docbook an acceptable source form as long as
Miles> people expect to able to reasonably edit the sources as raw text.
A vanishingly small number of potential markup languages fit that bill.
Unless your markup requirements are presentation-only and not very
complex.
I don't expect people to write program code without some form of editor
assist, for that matter.
--
Mark A. Flacy
Any opinions expressed above are my own. Any facts expressed above
that you could detect means my weasel wording needs work.
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Miles Bader, 2006/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Thomas Lord, 2006/10/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206,
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Miles Bader, 2006/10/03
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Mark Flacy, 2006/10/04
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Mark Flacy, 2006/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Andrea Russo, 2006/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Mark Flacy, 2006/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Mark Flacy, 2006/10/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Question about bug 8206, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/05