DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook

[Matthew Harrison <m.harrison@inpharmatica.co.uk>]

Michael Smith writes:
 > I read a thread on the LDP list in which a writer said that one
 > advantage of LinuxDoc was its short element names. It baffled me why
 > he would care how long the names were -- until I realized he was
 > probably typing them by hand using a regular text editor.
 > 

Shorter tags make the source slightly easier to read, as the content is less
obscured by the markup. Less of a problem in psgml with nice layout and syntax
highlighting, and even less in a WYSIWYM ("...you mean" a la Lyx) editor.

Matthew Harrison.