discuss: DocBook is a catastrophe
Subject:
Re: [discuss] DocBook is a catastrophe
From:
Yaroslav Fedevych ####@####.####
Date:
14 Dec 2005 15:33:17 -0000
Message-Id: <20051214153312.GD28052@fly.osdn.org.ua>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:20:58PM +0000, Machtelt Garrels wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Yaroslav Fedevych wrote:
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> > Sorry but it is if you want to add a chapter or two, or just reorganize
> > the whole thing. For me, DocBook is much like a binary-only format -- I might
> > as well use compressed PostScript, PDF or DVI with some strange font encoding.
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> > It does not matter for new documents, but for existing ones, it does.
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> Well, would it help if we put up a note somewhere plainly visible that
> says something like:
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> "If you need help reorganizing an existing DocBook document or adding
> content to an existing DocBook document, please contact
> docbook_at_nospam_en_tldp_org" ?
>
> Tille.
>
Yes. It's OK, although I suppose markup team will get exhausted very soon.
Perhaps it's kinda evil plot against us. :-(
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