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From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: gnu/usr.bin/texinfo - Imported sources
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> 
> There was, actually.  We had this big long inconclusive debate that
> raged for 2 weeks or more where we were trying to hash out our new
> doc format, and everything from SGML to HTML to TeX to troff was
> suggested, usually with great vigor, and then absolutely nothing happened.

Umm, I rather thought the opposite happened actually. We ended up adopting
the Linux SGML doc creation package and people started converting docs
like there was no tomorrow. It a pity all our fruitless discussions aren't
so "inconclusive" :-)

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member.
  Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff
  Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk,  JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK