Re: Emacs documentation.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:46:01 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> I suspect most Docbook writers actually use special purpose editors
> to create their source code, rather than Emacs or vi.

I think the real reason is that, in professional book publishing
business, many editorial and other auxiliary tools speak Docbook.  I'm
quite sure I've heard this in the past from someone who published
several books (and needed makeinfo's Docbook output feature for that
very reason).