[ANNOUNCE] xorg-sgml-doctools-1.2

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 04 March 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:15:13PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> >I can see you're not trying to be obnoxious, but are you honestly
>> >arguing for manpages instead of DocBook as the raw format, on the
>> >grounds of 'hard to remember syntax'?
>>
>> Yes Daniel.  Any format that takes 3 or more command line arguments,
>> and at least 2 separate incantations of disparate utilities just to do
>> the equ of a 'man name' is going to be extremely counterintuitive.
>> Particularly for a newbie, and I've been running linux since rh5.1
>> days.
>
>Okay, and you're missing the point.  DocBook is _not_ the final format.
>It is used to generate HTML, PDF, roff, etc.  You write documentation in
>DocBook, and users type man whatever.

That has never worked here.  Example:
[root at coyote ~]# man docbook-utils
No manual entry for docbook-utils

So where IS the bridge that will teach the user how to use it?

>So, I don't see any problem at all.

Obviously you are privy to the secret incantations to make it work.  I 
would like to join that club but my attempts to carve a working key have 
so far, been both very frustrating, and an utter failure.

-- 
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