discuss: TLDP DocBook pages need work - Start there!
Subject:
Re: TLDP DocBook pages need work - Start there!
From:
jdd ####@####.####
Date:
25 Nov 2003 16:24:01 -0000
Message-Id: <3FC38219.9090704@dodin.net>
preliminary:
you all, friends, could you _remove_ the multiple addresses?? (4 return
addresses on this mail!) before sending? thanks. return to the list is
enough
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:51:16PM -0500, John R. Daily wrote:
> > What is the functional difference between LinuxDoc and a
> > comparable subset of DocBook tags[1] with a well-defined toolchain?
>
> That question has not been answered. Personally, I like DocBook as being
> more flexible and more scalable (things that come along with the
this discussion is a long story. I can answer part of it because I was
involved.
long ago, I become a writer for the ldp and learned linuxdoc. I even
wrote a small guide to sgml (for my own use). It took me an afternoon to
do so.
LyX was pretty well able to cope with linuxdoc so there was a handy
alternative to vi, but linuxdoc is so simple vi was not really a problèm
(in fact it's only a problem in french 'cause of accented characters)
it was pretty difficult then to set up the _backends_ (sgml2xx),but it
was manageable, and the result as well html as printed was very pretty.
two things where difficult with linuxdoc:
* inclusion of images (figures)
* inclusion of tables
however, on small docs, given the necessity of keeping a full text
version possible, we could live with.
the only benefit from docbook is so the possibility of including the two
lacking elements.
but the drawback is very hard writing - I never could put my hand on a
usefull docbook writer (and I tried many). given that most HOWTO authors
use docbook once a year... prett hard for a learning curve.
jdd
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