docbook: is the linuxdoc DTD deprecated for LDP?
Subject:
Re: is the linuxdoc DTD deprecated for LDP?
From:
Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
Date:
3 Aug 2002 18:47:24 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208031831420.919-100000@caxton.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 2. It uses SGML/Docbook rather than the Linuxdoc DTD. Apparently,
> German submissions are ONLY allowed in Linuxdoc. Not Docbook.
This is inadmissible. (IMHO, of course! :)
Linuxdoc SGML is _acceptable_ -- but should not be made mandatory -- for
any LDP document. And of course, ASCII, Docbook SGML and Docbook XML
are equally acceptable. None is mandatory.
> I was going to make the case why the German coordinator should drop the
> requirement of Linuxdoc.
Easy. Linuxdoc doesn't allow for the incorporation of images.
(You could always be awkward, and deliberately include a screenshot into
your HOWTO.)
> I thought I remembered reading somewhere that
> Docbook and XML are favored over Linuxdoc
This has often been expressed on the mailing list; maybe it's now time
to include it in the official documentation if people are going to get
unnecessarily awkward about mandating markup formats.
My tuppenn'orth.
msw
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