discuss: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
Subject:
Re: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
28 Jul 2003 09:56:35 -0000
Message-Id: <20030728095633.GB29670@riva.ucam.org>
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:30:27PM -0500, Simon Anderson wrote:
> Everyone reads HOWTO's in html anyway, why jump through all of the
> unnecessary hoops? Having to go through all of this rubbish to translate a
> perfectly good document from HTML into some unnecessary alternative format
> for the one in a billion people that doesn't have a browser is a complete
> waste of time.
I ship text versions of LDP documents in the Debian doc-linux-text
package, which is considerably smaller and therefore installed as
standard versus doc-linux-html which is optional. (9Mb versus 69Mb
unpacked size is not to be sneezed at.)
I also regularly read documents in plain text format. They're much
easier to search that way. Even people who like viewing in HTML probably
disagree about whether they want single-page HTML (easy to search) or
multiple-page HTML (doesn't take eons to render large documents).
Cheers,
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
