Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:58:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)) Message-ID: <20020722002823.GB69834@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <82745.1027266137@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com> <82745.1027266137@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sunday, 21 July 2002 at 17:42:17 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020721141108.GA30472@luke.immure.com>, Bob Willcox writes: >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: >>> >>> I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my >>> masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers >>> still use it in earnest? >> >> As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff. >> Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my >> guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff. > > And until somebody shows me a way to edit DocBook where 8% of my screen > estate isn't occupied by the XML tags, I'll probably be using [nt]roff > as well. IMO the tags aren't the problem with DocBook. It's just *really* difficult to get good-looking results with. I've actually converted the FreeBSD book into DocBook (anybody want a perl script?), but jade can't format it, and gmat is a real kludge. Theoretically, DocBook is better, but I want something that works. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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