From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 5 07:20:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA03560 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:20:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from novell.com (prv-ums.Provo.Novell.COM [137.65.40.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03552 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from INET-PRV-Message_Server by fromGW with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 05 Jun 1996 08:20:52 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 08:26:38 -0600 From: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linuxdoc - Reply Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Jordan K. Hubbard 6/ 4 7:58pm >>> The choice of SGML itself seems to be a non-issue. Everyone from Sun to HP to DEC (I live with a tech writer who's a docs project manager for Sun and worked everywhere else before that) is moving to SGML and some DTD, O'Reilly and associates has all of its authors writing in SGML using their own DTD (which they'll provide to anyone for free, BTW) and the world in general is just moving away from groff and TeX. So we're on the right train, let's not let the color of the upholstery motivate us into switching back to the more familiar yet outmoded horse and buggy. :-) Jordan >>> Let me add that Novell/UnixWare was also in the process of converting all the documentation to SGML. We found too many advantages in doing this. (Like hey, all the UnixWare manual pages and documentation are available on: http://www.novell.com/manuals/index.html I still vote for moving all the documentation and man pages to HTML (or SGMLand convert to HTML) and having them hypertext linked. This puts all documentation in a single form and in a single place! Darren R. Davis Senior Software Engineer Novell, Inc.