From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 4 22:46:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23082 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23077 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:46:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul10.u.washington.edu (root@saul10.u.washington.edu [140.142.13.73]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA38726 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:46:01 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul10.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA18195 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:46:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:45:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Why SGML for docs? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have seen that FreeBSD makes calls for SGML documentation. I know HTML and it is easy and pretty powerful with HTML 4.0 and CSS. I took a peek and SGML and my hair turned white. My brief look at SGML led me to think HTML is pretty good. I don't need to look at SGML. I am happy with this small subset. What makes SGML useful for docs? Is it conversion tools for different formats? Is it the power? I guess the short question would be, "Why should I learn SGML?" Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message