From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 9:26:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sentry.granch.com (sentry.granch.com [212.109.197.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823C637B403 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 09:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shelton@sentry.granch.com) Received: (from shelton@localhost) by sentry.granch.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5GGQ3C44595; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:26:03 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from shelton) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: "Rashid N. Achilov" Organization: Granch Ltd. To: Bill Moran Subject: Re: Docs in SGML Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:26:03 +0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01061622231103.21543@sentry.granch.com> <3B2B83DE.1C2E3370@iowna.com> In-Reply-To: <3B2B83DE.1C2E3370@iowna.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01061623260305.21543@sentry.granch.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 16 June 2001 23:05, Bill Moran wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/index.html > > Out of curiosity, what would you recommend instead of SGML? > I think the doc primer explains that SGML is used because it's so easily > translated into different languages (i.e. a man page written in SGML can > automagically be translated to HTML, XML, man, ASCII, etc) > Some background: Ten (10) years ago in USSR were only DOS boxes (Imagine, NO Windoze :-)) ). And, of course, no programs with Russian interface. :-)That time I already was a Programmer :-) Since that I'm got so accustomed to English interface, that and now for me "1 Помощь 2 Меню 3 Смотр" (here was used russian letters) looks like strange and enormous rather "1 Help 2 Menu 3 View". Thats way I find all this noise about "localization" useless for me. Yes, I write letters for my colleagues in Russian and need locale support to be able to read their answers :-) But that and now I prefer English-interfaced programs, docs, etc...For me and English docs suited best, instead of installing some tools, make some docs...and read English docs :-))) Well, probably SGML is a future-language. But why would have been remained text files, and make SGML in additon instead make in replacing? -- With Best Regards. Rashid N. Achilov (RNA1-RIPE), Web: http://granch.ru/~shelton Granch Ltd. system administrator, e-mail: achilov@granch.ru PGP: 83 CD E2 A7 37 4A D5 81 D6 D6 52 BF C9 2F 85 AF 97 BE CB 0A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message