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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Robert Watson wrote:
> > I thought about it, but haven't had time to implement.  Right now I just
> > cat the messages together, render, and fix warnings and errors due to bad
> > sgml in submissions.  Oh, and write an introduction.  It's actually a
>   ********************
> > remarkably simple process [for me], but I agree we could make it easier
>                                                            **************
> > for developers.
>   **************
> 
> Oh.  I just have to laugh.  I can't help it.  8-) 8-). 

I kid you not :-).  About 40% of the SGML submissions I receive are broken
in some form, despite a template that is correct.  Usually it's unclosed
tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc.  If I had to guess, asking for
nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as
I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't
have to install a port to get syntax checking. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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