discuss: One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide (not exactly, but ...)
Subject:
Re: One-page replacement for LDP-Author-Guide (not exactly, but ...)
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
13 May 2003 05:11:56 -0000
Message-Id: <20030513051200.GA542@lafn.org>
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:55:49PM +0200, jdd wrote:
[snip]
> I think that at a moment or an other (but surely not soon) anybody will
> be able to write his HOWTOs inline on the ldp site and with full xml
> capabilities (not text wiki). may be when the lampadas successor will be
> out there.
This is not desirable for 2 reasons. One is that being online consumes
bandwidth, especially the bandwidth of tying up the local phone line if
that's how one is connected. For example, one may be expecting
important phone calls (say about a temporary job where one must respond
immediately) and doesn't want the phone line to be busy. Call waiting
may be too costly and/or complex to install. Phone charges may be by
the minute. Even if one isn't charged, bandwidth still costs someone.
So for many, it's better to compose docs offline.
Also, most people have already learned an editor or word processor and
don't want to have to learn another one. If the one that supports XML
is very simple to learn, it can't have many feature and is not as
convenient (and efficient to use) as what one already knows.
David Lawyer
> anyway, a great document processor will come, probably from
> OpenOffice/koffice/??? that will do all the job for all. I for sure see
> an xml editor as powerful as LaTeX is, in the few year from us.
>
> Open Source is really great.
>
> jdd
>
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