Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:16:02 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: documentation issues generally Message-ID: <20010312171601.A99863@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <3AAD733E.CA29C3F9@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:09:18PM -0800 References: <046701c0ab3c$c4a66300$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <15021.23142.119090.401764@guru.mired.org> <00f501c0ab57$0cf59760$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <15021.29109.287302.175380@guru.mired.org> <3AAD733E.CA29C3F9@acuson.com>
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--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:09:18PM -0800, David Johnson wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: >=20 > > In other words, you never even bothered trying. I've never read the > > docs list. I don't want to read about writing docs, I want to provide > > better docs to help people use FreeBSD, and cut down on the questions > > on -questions. I believe I've succeeded in doing that. >=20 > If that list is anything at all like the kde-doc list, I don't blame > Doug at all. DocBook is great and pretty easy to learn. But the people > who are really *into* DocBook have lost all sense of priority. They're > more into DocBook than into Documentation. My experience as someone who knows not a whit of docbook is that by submitting docs in plain text, there's usually someone who is happy to mark them up for me. Kris --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6rXTRWry0BWjoQKURAnv1AJ9yrd5/hPgNUhuA52kWLdcMPQXvBQCg3p18 LCjStpHVoZHZkt4mP9NPrbo= =INw1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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