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Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:03:16 -0500
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Zvezdan Petkovic <address@hidden>:
> What I was more concerned with is general writing.
> Does an author of the book need to bother with semantic tagging on a
> scale that DocBook _requires_? 

Personally, I like the kind of capabilities it gives me.  

Moving the Jargon File from Texinfo to DocBook was amazingly
liberating; among other things, I found I could move all my citation
and change history information into portions of the entry markup that
aren't mormally rendered, but still have it there for visual
inspection.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>




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