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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:42:37 +0000
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text formatting tools.
Message-ID:  <20090124224237.GA96097@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0901241353l56be13b4s9860b9e949bc9ec2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <497B77C7.90001@telenix.org> <2a7894eb0901241353l56be13b4s9860b9e949bc9ec2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote:

<big snip>

Another advantage of XML is greater familiarity with the toolset
amongst the target authorship.

I dare say a number of people have tackled the similar HTML/XHTML/CSS
for authoring on the www, whereas few have tackled a manpage or
suchlike.

With regards a huge toolset, for the FreeBSD docs you don't need TeX
to produce the HTML version. The HTML can also always be converted to
postscript using, for example, Firefox for hardcopy.

Apologies for the big snip but I didn't particularly want to reply to
any one point & wanted to avoid redundancy.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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