discuss: DocBook vs LinuxDoc (was LDP Incorporate ...)
Subject:
Re: [discuss] DocBook vs LinuxDoc (was LDP Incorporate ...)
From:
"Eric S. Raymond" ####@####.####
Date:
5 Nov 2007 04:23:55 +0000
Message-Id: <20071105042332.GA27027@thyrsus.com>
David Lawyer ####@####.####
> A very important project would be to merge LinuxDoc sgml and DocBook
> sgml which would have a subset just as easy to use as LinuxDoc. It's
> use would go far beyond the bounds of LDP. It's a big task including
> new software smart enough to find and add all the missing tags (but
> don't show them to the user unless the user wants to see
> them).
I was, for a short time after the previous one let them drop, the
principal maintainer of the old LinuxDoc tools.
I'll say now what I said then. The tools were a kluge, and the format was
inferior to DocBook. Moving was, and remains, the right decision. IMO no
purpose at all would be served by trying to revive LinuxDoc.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
