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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...
/ Adam Turoff <ziggy@panix.com> was heard to say: [...] Taking things slightly out of order... | Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into | a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent), | and implement the full DTD as multiple layers of customizations on Quite. Hard that is. And it would introduce N! different "DocBooks". How easy would that be to explain? | fail because using DocBook only seems to work for people who have | decided that learning how to use the DTD and tools is eventually | better than the alternatives, despite the initial pain. Would the learning curve for DocBook Core + DocBook Dublin Core + DocBook Unix really have a significantly gentler slope? Aren't the really hard issues editorial? Learning how to do structured authoring is hard. I suggest that it's possible that learning how to do structured authoring with a big DTD is only incrementally more difficult than learning how to do it with a small DTD. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Perhaps, but let's not get bogged http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | down in semantics.--Homer J. Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | Simpson, BABF07
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