26 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackerstroff vs. DocBook (was: Request for s...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Robert Watson | Jul 11, 2002 10:13 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 14, 2002 9:23 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 7:42 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jul 18, 2002 8:30 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 10:17 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Jul 18, 2002 2:34 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 5:17 pm | |
| Paul Richards | Jul 18, 2002 5:31 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 18, 2002 5:45 pm | |
| Garance A Drosihn | Jul 18, 2002 6:27 pm | |
| Matthew Dillon | Jul 18, 2002 9:29 pm | |
| Brandon D. Valentine | Jul 18, 2002 11:43 pm | |
| John Baldwin | Jul 19, 2002 6:01 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 19, 2002 6:34 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jul 19, 2002 10:54 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jul 19, 2002 11:44 am | |
| Julian Elischer | Jul 19, 2002 12:00 pm | |
| Greg 'groggy' Lehey | Jul 19, 2002 9:19 pm | |
| Tetsurou Okazaki | Jul 21, 2002 6:53 am | |
| Bob Willcox | Jul 21, 2002 7:10 am | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Jul 21, 2002 8:41 am | |
| Greg 'groggy' Lehey | Jul 21, 2002 5:28 pm | |
| Chris Costello | Jul 21, 2002 6:55 pm | |
| David Schultz | Jul 21, 2002 10:32 pm | |
| Nik Clayton | Jul 24, 2002 1:31 pm | |
| Greg 'groggy' Lehey | Jul 29, 2002 1:03 am |
| Subject: | troff vs. DocBook (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)) | |
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| From: | Greg 'groggy' Lehey (gr...@FreeBSD.org) | |
| Date: | Jul 21, 2002 5:28:01 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Sunday, 21 July 2002 at 17:42:17 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <2002...@luke.immure.com>, Bob Willcox writes:
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote:
I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers still use it in earnest?
As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff. Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff.
And until somebody shows me a way to edit DocBook where 8% of my screen estate isn't occupied by the XML tags, I'll probably be using [nt]roff as well.
IMO the tags aren't the problem with DocBook. It's just *really* difficult to get good-looking results with. I've actually converted the FreeBSD book into DocBook (anybody want a perl script?), but jade can't format it, and gmat is a real kludge. Theoretically, DocBook is better, but I want something that works.
Greg
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