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Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? 
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 03:29:45 -0700
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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I am going to investigate how can Thot support directly DocBook.
As Thot is it can export Thot (native format), LaTex, and HTML.

	Amancio



>From The Desk Of Nik Clayton :
> On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 01:05:50AM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > What I am pitching is for is that if Thot is good we can start advertising 
it
> > and hopefully standardize our internal documentation based on its format.
> > Internal documentation meaning things like : reports, articles, etc...
> 
> Um, whos internal documentation?
> 
> Yours (as in, your own personal stuff), or the FreeBSD project's (articles,
> FAQ, Handbook and so on).
> 
> If the latter, what's wrong with DocBook, particularly with John Fieber's
> first cut at tutorial documentation at 
> 
>     http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber/docbook/markupguide.html
> 
> Or have I got the wrong end of the stick, and you can use Thot to write
> DocBook markup (at which point the masses start screaming "Emacs + psgml"
> :-) )
> 
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