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Subject: Re: [docbook] Ruminations on the future of DocBook
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > John R. Daily <john@geekhavoc.com> wrote >>>For DocBook, I think that time has come. >>> > ... >>think it borders on self-evident that DocBook needs significant >>refactoring.) >> > No, it is not self-evident. Did you actually read http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/21/docbook and http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/29/moredocbook ? > DocBook needs documentation (TDG is only a > first attempt), needs training (any MS-Word trainer knows how it is > difficult to make people use styles, not presentation marks), needs > software (tools are stilll much too buggy, specially jadetex and > passivetex), All those are indeed areas where improvement is desirable. But I don't see how that contradicts Norm's initiative. > but it does not need yet another rewriting What would be bad about something good? :) Seriously though, the point is to improve DocBook. I think that that's a very worthy effort. > that will > render obsolete all the training already performed (not to mention > documents). http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/21/docbook "I think one of the goals should be that most valid DocBook documents can be transformed into new valid V.next documents with XSLT." > My personal opinion on Docbook is that too much time is spent on the > standard and not enough on the surrounding environment (docs, tools). Both areas (would) benefit from your support :) Tobi -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/
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