discuss: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.


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Subject: Re: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
From: Morgon Kanter ####@####.####
Date: 28 Jul 2003 05:24:24 -0000
Message-Id: <20030728012346.5f5c2516.morgon@surgo.net>

This one time, at band camp, Simon Anderson ####@####.#### wrote:
> Instead of improving my content, I am wasting countless hours working 
> step by step through the Author Guide, only to get output like the 
> following. This is not worthwhile use of any author's time.

http://www.lodestar2.com/people/dyork/talks/2002/ols/docbook-tutorial/frames/frames.html
Takes about 5 minutes to learn docbook xml by reading that.

> I ask you to consider what Stephen King needs to know about printing 
> presses and type setting.

Nothing, which is precisely why DocBook is being used, rather than 
presentation-level html where you'd have to worry about something like 
that.

Morgon
-- 
"Man is the only creature capable of hating itself" -- Governor of Japan 
in The End of Evangelion

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