From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 23:06:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08784106566B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:06:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30BB8FC17 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:06:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LQrDE-0007Xt-VK; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:42:49 +0000 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id n0OMgjfd001084; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:42:46 GMT Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C9589FCA6A0; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:42:37 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:42:37 +0000 From: Frank Shute To: Murray Stokely Message-ID: <20090124224237.GA96097@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Murray Stokely , Chuck Robey , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <497B77C7.90001@telenix.org> <2a7894eb0901241353l56be13b4s9860b9e949bc9ec2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0901241353l56be13b4s9860b9e949bc9ec2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'http://www.shute.org.uk/' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.1.7 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Chuck Robey , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text formatting tools. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:06:50 -0000 On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: Another advantage of XML is greater familiarity with the toolset amongst the target authorship. I dare say a number of people have tackled the similar HTML/XHTML/CSS for authoring on the www, whereas few have tackled a manpage or suchlike. With regards a huge toolset, for the FreeBSD docs you don't need TeX to produce the HTML version. The HTML can also always be converted to postscript using, for example, Firefox for hardcopy. Apologies for the big snip but I didn't particularly want to reply to any one point & wanted to avoid redundancy. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html