Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 12:45:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linuxdoc Message-ID: <199606081045.MAA00683@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199606071232.HAA19807@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jun 7, 96 07:32:01 am
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Peter da Silva writes: > >> We need to discuss that statement. I don't see that it's true. Sure, >> each file should have only one kind of format, but the individual >> files could have different formats. At the moment, we have one of at >> least three possible transformations: .sgml->.html, .sgml->.tex, >> .sgml->.mm (or whatever). What we need to do is to agree on a >> different file name extension for the DocBook or the latexdoc stuff >> (say, change .sgml to .ldoc for the latexdoc stuff), and then we have >> three additional transformations .ldoc->.html, .ldoc->.tex, >> .ldoc->.mm. This is rather like what I'm doing in the latest version >> of my book, in which I have .ms, .man and .tex files. > > I recommend that none of the file formats be named ".sgml". That's sort > of like naming your C files ".src" or ".txt", right? All three (latexdoc, > docbook, and html) are SGML DTDs. > > To support this, on the Amiga there were a family of file formats called > IFF. Some programs decided to call their SMUS (simple musical score) or > ILBM (interleaved bitmap) files ".iff" because the PC versions of their > programs didn't like 4-character suffixes. As a result you ended up with > a bunch of files all called ".iff". > > This wasn't as bad as all that, because the programmers who did that also > tended to ship programs that didn't work well on the Amiga for similar > reasons, but until they all went out of business the confusion was annoying. > > So, how about naming the files at the semantic level rather than the > structural... Good idea. I wasn't trying to lay down the law. Greghome | help
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