discuss: Staff Election was Re: LDP Committee?
Subject:
Re: Staff Election was Re: LDP Committee?
From:
Stein Gjoen ####@####.####
Date:
10 Mar 2005 18:17:30 -0000
Message-Id: <42308FFC.7030401@mail.nyx.net>
Mathieu Deschamps wrote:
> David Lawyer ####@####.#### wrote:
[big snip]
> Note that our HOWTO generator for people to type HOWTOs online generates
> LinuxDoc. I think that if we made it easier for new authors: LinuxDoc
> and a one-page Author Guide, we would have many more new authors. All
> the time reviewers spent helping people with DocBook could have been
> better spent on recruiting new authors, etc.
>
>
> * This is so true. But I don't know if a HOWTO generator is the only single solution. I'am *always very... what's the feeling ... unsafe with single-way-fixed-structure-thing.
As I made clear in the thread on the model of TLDP the generator
is not the only single solution: there are also templates to
choose from. The history behind these:
- first I wrote my Multi Disk HOWTO
- from this HOWTO I extracted headings and sample text
and made the Big HOWTO Template
- this Template was reworked into the Generator.
Thus the Generator is not single-way.
Since the Generator offers numerous opportunities of
selection and customisation it is not fixed-structure either.
This history ensures the Templates and the Generator are real
world solutions that work. The Generator has of course been
tested with a sample run through the entire tool chain.
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
