From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 26 12:11:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5111915E11; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA18464; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:11:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:11:42 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Nik Clayton Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Motoyuki Konno , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DocBook formatting style? Message-ID: <19990826141141.F24968@futuresouth.com> References: <19990822200737.A65807@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990823141611.A1770@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990823172005.C42397@ppp18344.on.bellglobal.com> <19990824172812.L65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908250049.JAA00382@rei.snipe.rim.or.jp> <19990825115510.A96398@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990825194348.G18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990826111447.C66300@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:14:47AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [nit] On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:14:47AM +0100, a little birdie told me that Nik Clayton remarked > > into > > For all the hype about open standards, getting a program to work on > different versions of Unix in the real world can be a tedious and tricky > business, as anyone who has tried it will know. > You may be lucky enough to find that the program you want will compile > cleanly on your system, install itself in all the right places and run > flawlessly “out of the box”, but this is unfortunately > rather rare. > With most programs, you will find yourself doing a fair bit of > head-scratching, and there are quite a few programs that will result > in premature greying, or even chronic alopecia... I'm in favor of putting markup tags on their own line. Thus: For all the hype about open standards, getting a program to work on different versions of Unix in the real world can be a tedious and tricky business, as anyone who has tried it will know ... With most programs, you will find yourself doing a fair bit of head-scratching, and there are quite a few programs that will result in premature greying, or even chronic alopecia... But that may just be a personal quirk. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message