discuss: part of the review?
Subject:
Re: part of the review?
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
15 Jul 2001 06:30:29 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107142328250.7460-100000@commandprompt.com>
>
>I very strongly believe that documentation in linuxdoc format is going
>to be at a severe disadvantage in the next six months, as both KDE and
>Gnome release help browsers that require DocBook for full
Don't forget that even the Linux Kernel Docs are moving to DocBook.
>functionality. They won't understand linuxdoc at all, although they
>will support html with reduced functionality. See this month's archive
>on gnome-doc for the details -- there's a long thread currently
>underway on the Gnome 2.0 Help API.
>
>There may be a difference of opinion on ease-of-use, which is
>subjective. But I don't see any way in which LinuxDoc is superior to
>DocBook from a technical point of view. DocBook wins that one hands
>down IMO.
>
>I have been and will continue to do everything I can do evangelize
>DocBook within the LDP. I believe it's the right thing for us to do.
>
>
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