| From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Switching to XML |
| Date: | 2006-12-10 02:54:35 |
| Message-ID: | 457B76EB.4010701@paradise.net.nz |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> As for authoring tools, show me one that produces SGML or XML that's
> reasonably readable, and I might worry about allowing people to use it.
> Most of the ones I've seen would render the doc sources unreadable for
> anyone not using an authoring tool (possibly even the very same
> authoring tool). We are not going to move in that direction
> because it would piss off the people who do the bulk of the work now.
>
+1
With regards to the current setup discouraging contribution - I've done
one (or maybe two) doc submissions and ISTR that it was not very
difficult - even as a complete SGML newbie - to get up and running, make
my changes and build the (HTML) docs.
Cheers
Mark
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