From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57492 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Timothy Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs markup language Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:41:01 -0400 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <20040518114101.A1975@gwyn.tux.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084894894 23626 80.91.224.253 (18 May 2004 15:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6032@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 18 17:41:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQ6iV-0006vd-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 17:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQ6iM-0003bF-00; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:41:10 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQ6iI-0003b5-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:41:06 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQ6iF-0007R3-NY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [199.184.165.135]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A813A0217 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 10:41:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from tim@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.11.6p2/8.9.1) id i4IFf1s17440 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 11:41:01 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from larsi@gnus.org on Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:16:29PM +0200 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57492 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57492 On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:16:29PM +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > XML is ugly. > > Setting up the news server > > is more unpleasant than > > @node Setting up the news server I know i'm walking dangerous ground here, but this is a matter of opinion. XML is easier to parse and has the benefit of flexibility and pre-existing tools in order to transfer it to other formats... Not that Texinfo doesn't. Tim