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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you?
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Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
> 
> >>>>> Pedro F Giffuni writes:
> 
>  > Anyway I think Amancio is right; we first have to determine if Thot is
>  > the right editor for our internal documentation. The searching process
> 
> It seems to me that you still confuse the format and the tool. The
> right editor is already there since we have vi :-) Document writers
> are free to use program X oy Y as long as the document format is SGML.
> It does not matter if the C code in /usr/src/* is written with cat, vi
> or emacs.
> 
No, I'm not confusing them. I (perhaps we) would like a WYSIWYG editor
that enforces a standarized format and that we agree is a nice tool. *I*
don't like vi, emacs or those other editors, and I don't wnat to have to
learn SGML to write documentation.
John Fieber made some excellent comments on the difference between the
application and the format. I firmly believe that even if the tool
doesn't exist we will have added benefits by searching for it.

	Pedro.

> Jean-Marc
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