Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 02:42:41 +0100 (BST) From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: csgr@omega.ru.ac.za, gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com, ache@freefall.cdrom.com, adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-other@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, dfr@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, se@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: gnu/usr.bin/texinfo - Imported sources Message-ID: <199409140142.CAA02433@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <28166.779476032@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 13, 94 10:07:12 am
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > There was, actually. We had this big long inconclusive debate that > raged for 2 weeks or more where we were trying to hash out our new > doc format, and everything from SGML to HTML to TeX to troff was > suggested, usually with great vigor, and then absolutely nothing happened. Umm, I rather thought the opposite happened actually. We ended up adopting the Linux SGML doc creation package and people started converting docs like there was no tomorrow. It a pity all our fruitless discussions aren't so "inconclusive" :-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK
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