From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/51691 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sigurd@12move.de (Karl =?iso-8859-1?q?Pfl=E4sterer?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Patch] FAQ in texinfo format Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:14:02 +0200 Organization: Lemis World Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <848yu5dygz.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87ist9f0g4.fsf@doohan.bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050869888 23007 80.91.224.249 (20 Apr 2003 20:18:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 20:18:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M234@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Apr 20 22:18:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197LFt-0005xn-00 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:17:41 +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 197LGG-0001YL-00; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 197LGC-0001YG-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 52618 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2003 20:17:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 52613 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2003 20:17:59 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2003 20:17:59 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197LJl-0005YL-00 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 22:21:41 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: wintendo.pflaesterer.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p62.246.146.56.tisdip.tiscali.de Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1050870101 21346 62.246.146.56 (20 Apr 2003 20:21:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Apr 2003 20:21:41 GMT X-Face: #iIcL\6>Qj/G*F@AL9T*v/R$j@7Q`6#FU&Flg6u6aVsLdWf(H$U5>:;&*>oy>jOIWgA%8w* A!V7X`\fEGoQ[@D'@i^*p3FCC6&Rg~JT/H_*MOX;"o~flADb8^ Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Hamster/2.0.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Zdv3DCgnSPAaeN9gK+kTmYBems= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51691 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:51691 On 20 Apr 2003, Steinar Bang <- sb@dod.no wrote: >>>>>> sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer): >> Well I can only speak for me but if I wanted to add something to the >> faq it would be a lot easier if it was in texi than in xml (insert >> your most favourite rant here). So IMO it would be better to switch >> the master version to texi. > I think it would be wrong to dictate a volunteer's choice of tools. Me too, but I didn't dictate anything. I only wrote my opinion concerning Kais sugestion *if* the maintainer would like to switch the format what others think about it. > Also, there's a lot more "happening" with DocBook XML, than with > TeXinfo. DocBook XML is a great master source to generate other > formats from. Not because it's XML. That's coincidental. But Please don't let us start a xml pro con flame here. I don't like xml because I think it has gone the wrong way (especially lispers should know better how to write markup usings sexps) (I think Erik naggum wrote on cll some time ago an excellent article concerning xml, but I don't have the m-id). But you are right. it is the maintainers choice. He does the work he can choose how it is most convenient for him. > But I agree the DocBook XML source for the FAQ should be in CVS, > perferrably with synchronized checkins of the generated TeXinfo file > (never check in one and not the other). If the xml file should also in future be the source I agree with you. bye KP -- Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. Possibly this trend results from a mistaken belief that using a somewhat mysterious device confers an aura of power on the user. -- Niklaus Wirth