discuss: LinuxDoc vs. DocBook (was Re: Staff Election)
Subject:
Re: LinuxDoc vs. DocBook (was Re: Staff Election)
From:
Martin Wheeler ####@####.####
Date:
10 Mar 2005 23:05:11 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503102238090.18031@chaucer.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:54:14AM +0000, Martin Wheeler wrote:
>
>>>> Sorry, I just don't get it. Does LinuxDoc pre-date DocBook, or is it a
>>>> reaction to DocBook's perceived difficulty?
>> ...
>>> It predates it.
>>
>> Wrong.
> Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
No trouble.
> So it's a long story that I wasn't aware of. Thanks again.
>
>> But I don't expect you to take a blind bit of notice.
> I just thanked you :-). Do I deserve this?
No; probably not. Put it down to exasperation with the ever-ongoing
Linuxdoc vs. DocBook saga, which always drives me screaming from the room.
(Maybe we ought to ban all discussion of it from this list. It's
pointless; and never gets anyone anywhere. And it will *always* bring
out the worst in me.)
Plus the fact that the same misinformation had been published on the list
in the space of 24 hours.
>> Fanaticism is notoriously careless of historical fact.
> Please, lets keep ad hominem remarks out of our discussions.
<smile> This genuinely was not intended as an ad hominem attack. Rather a
statment on the general state of affairs and firmly entrenched positions
taken by each of the opposing sides in the Linuxdoc/DocBook wars.
(Actually, at an ad hominem level, I expected most people to turn it
around and try to apply it to *me*, if anyone.)
But hey, if you feel the caps fits, why not wear it? :-)
There you go. In this medium, you never can tell the response your
comments are going to evoke.
Cheers,
--
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