discuss: LinuxDoc vs. DocBook, was Re: part of the review?
Subject:
Re: LinuxDoc vs. DocBook, was Re: part of the review?
From:
jdd ####@####.####
Date:
18 Jul 2001 22:00:47 -0000
Message-Id: <01071821260608.05130@mecum>
Le Mercredi 18 Juillet 2001 18:39, David Lloyd a écrit :
> This is a religious war.
it seems to be.
however we need a documentation system
*effective
*usable by non professional writers
I have no interest in the format the text in packed, I'm only interested by
the thing people see on they screen when they read.
when I first write a linux documentation (not for the ldp), I learned
linuxdoc and made a small summary of it's commands, but almost immediately I
dicovered LyX and stop boring me with code.
LyX is a small (small?) graphical interface to LaTeX, that is it emphasis on
content and structure, not only aspect. This is exactly what we need.
alas, if LyX makes very good linuxdoc, it seems to have problems with docbook.
alas, three time alas, somebody on this list said it's impossible to have a
graphical interface to docbook.
the problem is only there. I use linuxdoc because it's available, not for any
other religious reason (and only as an "export to" option), and I can use any
other docbook, XML, XYTRE:-(S, but I don't mind to learn all these new
things, I have no usage elsewhere.
can we be practical?
all this sgml stuff is driven by the fact that we must provide doc in formats
very poor of graphical object: ASCII.<, man..
so we have use for very few "tags".
Linux lack Documentation and authors, not coders. make it easy for them, not
for you.
in that respect I found the "Poet" html2docbook a very good idea
well I don't think I will write more on this subject
cheers
jdd
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