discuss: Migration process of the existing documents to Wiki
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Migration process of the existing documents to Wiki
From:
"Robert Spencer" ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jul 2008 23:47:57 +0100
Message-Id: <8b8c4c740807251547w7be98183t263d25d313465730@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/25/08, ####@####.#### ####@####.#### wrote:
> I do not thing that we should go back to DocBook. DocBook is out-dated
> and frankly to old-school. Wiki is the new wave and with moderator
> support, additions can be made to new Docs and the project might also
> see more people creating HOWTOs and Guides because it is a LOT easier
> to use.
At one time I would have disagreed with you, unfortunately I've just
recently found out that nearly everything is based on HTML. The PS and
PDF doc's are based on HTML output and the text is HTML passed through
'lynx -dump', which explains why it's so ugly.
DocBook is only useful if we actually use most of it's features, for
some odd reason we aren't.
In answer to the one person that invariable says:
"But you can make books from DocBook."
Cool, but I know of only one author that's doing that and publishers
have a typesetting department.
--
Robert Spencer
