Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:52:39 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, sue@welearn.com.au, freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in, katinka@magestower.com, n6rej@tcsn.net Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Message-ID: <20010514185239O.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <014a01c0dccf$5926cd30$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <024b01c0dc05$b1314fc0$0300a8c0@oracle> < <20010514182156.A22370@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <014a01c0dccf$5926cd30$0300a8c0@oracle>
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From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:41:04 +1000 > Whats "LinuxDoc" ?? ..... I'll have it known that I've never been > guilty of using stuff from linux :). I write mostly in either W2K / > notepad or Solaris / StarOffice & then change the .txt extension to > .html when I'm finished I find the above sentiment rather inexplicable given your earlier rantings about how all this discussion about Docbook infrastructure and whatnot was a waste of time! People don't write in HTML or text format (to say nothing of Microsoft Word, ye gods) around here and that's a damn good thing since you'd otherwise be unable to easily generate multiple target formats for the handbook, such as HTML and postscript for printing. Linuxdoc, despite having a name which awakens an atavistic anti-linux response on your part, is nothing more than a DTD for SGML, and SGML is something which has been widely adopted so the FreeBSD project could hardly be accused of going their own way on that or something. The fact that you're someone purportedly seeking to enrich the state of FreeBSD's documentation and still don't know LinuxDoc from DocBook is clear evidence of the fact that, if anything, there hasn't been ENOUGH discussion on documentation infrastructure issues. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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