discuss: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
Subject:
Re: Docbook, Xml, Jade etc.
From:
Wolfgang Fuschlberger ####@####.####
Date:
28 Jul 2003 10:25:48 -0000
Message-Id: <20030728102405.GA21977@window.dhis.org>
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.)
...which is the only one I have installed on my boxes. Apart from the used
discspace there is the advantage of not having to run a webserver and -browser
to read docu, (z)less on the command-line is enough.
wolfgang
