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Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs
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From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:41:04 +1000

> Whats "LinuxDoc" ?? ..... I'll have it known that I've never been
> guilty of using stuff from linux :). I write mostly in either W2K /
> notepad or Solaris / StarOffice & then change the .txt extension to
> .html when I'm finished

I find the above sentiment rather inexplicable given your earlier
rantings about how all this discussion about Docbook infrastructure
and whatnot was a waste of time!  People don't write in HTML or text
format (to say nothing of Microsoft Word, ye gods) around here and
that's a damn good thing since you'd otherwise be unable to easily
generate multiple target formats for the handbook, such as HTML and
postscript for printing.  Linuxdoc, despite having a name which
awakens an atavistic anti-linux response on your part, is nothing more
than a DTD for SGML, and SGML is something which has been widely
adopted so the FreeBSD project could hardly be accused of going their
own way on that or something.

The fact that you're someone purportedly seeking to enrich the state
of FreeBSD's documentation and still don't know LinuxDoc from DocBook
is clear evidence of the fact that, if anything, there hasn't been
ENOUGH discussion on documentation infrastructure issues.

- Jordan

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