Volunteering to assist with documentation docbook conversion.

Chuck Robey chuckr at telenix.org
Fri May 23 11:01:34 PDT 2008


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Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:57:31AM -0500, Michael Verret wrote:
>>> I did a couple man pages, and Eamon & Peter have done a couple larger docs.
>>> For examples of what we did, see:
>>>        lib/libXcomposite/man/   (but note bug #12725)
>>>        lib/libXtst/man/
>>>        doc/xorg-docs/sgml/core/Xserver-spec.sgml
>>>        doc/xorg-docs/specs/Xi/protocol.xml
>>>
>>> Obviously it would be good to establish some conventions for consistency
>>> (sgml or xml for instance).
>> Before I go too far, which do you prefer? My first instinct is XML.
>
> I agree. xml seems to be more fashionable these days than sgml.

Boy I hate to see decisions made based upon intuitions of popularity.  In case
anyone remembers, that's how Microsoft built itself.  You NEED popularity!  Who
cares about quality?

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