Re: todo (was: RE: Questions about future)

[Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>]

No rumours... I own WP9 for Linux, I bought it for the SGML... and it don't exist
:(

Mark Komarinski wrote:

> The GNOME folk have example templates for writing your own DB documentation.
> It's not the same as what we would want to have, but this may help
> most new users.
>
> I'm going to make two sets of templates, one in SGML, the other in LyX.
> I'd like to do a WP9 version as well, but the documentation is sparse on the
> Windows version, and rumors say that it doesn't exist in the Linux world.
>
> I've been using UNIX for 10 years now and the only command I know in Emacs is
> how to get out.  Or was it help.  I forget.  The more tools we can provide
> to authors to help them write, the better.
>
> -Mark
>
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Lawyer [mailto:dave@lafn.org]
> > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:30 PM
> > > To: Gregory Leblanc
> > > Cc: ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
> > > Subject: Re: todo (was: RE: Questions about future)
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:25:15PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > > This is a HUGE job.  IMHO, we need to expand upon the
> > > documents that we have
> > > > already, namely Mark's HOWTO-HOWTO, Jorge's
> > > Using-DocBook-HOWTO, and the
> > > > mini-HOWTO type document by Serek on CVS.  I think that the
> > > whole mess
> > > > should get pushed into one larger GUIDE, with several chapters.
> > >
> > > If we want people to volunteer to write HOWTOs who know next to
> > > nothing about CVS, Docbook, etc., we need to keep it simple and short.
> > > While I like the idea of a long Guide I think there also needs to be
> > > something much shorter.  I learned LinuxDoc (or at least enough to
> > > write a HOWTO in it) from the 3-page (printed) example.sgml document.
> > > So I think there should be both a short document (say equal to about
> > > 10 printed pages) and a long one for those who want to delve into more
> > > details (and create better docs).  In the short document little would
> > > be said about CVS and it would be suggested to submit docs by email
> > > until one learns more about CVS.
> >
> > Sounds good to me.  I'll go look for this LinuxDoc example.sgml, and perhaps
> > see what we can do with it and send it around a bit, in DocBook.
> >         Greg
> >
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