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To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Why SGML for docs? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:45:45 PST."
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:59:10 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> What makes SGML useful for docs? Is it conversion tools for different
> formats? Is it the power?

Yes.

> I guess the short question would be, "Why should I learn SGML?"

If you want to contribute to the FreeBSD doc project, that is its
official language.  If not then there may indeed be no reason for you
to learn SGML! :-)

- Jordan

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