From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:56:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180515155621.0B986200C2@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201805151423.w4FENYlQ010613@freefriends.org>
Hi,
Arnold wrote:
> Clem wrote:
> > wrote a wonderful "Masscomp Style Guide" for all the books - I still
> > have my copy. Tim took it with him when he created O'Reilly.
Tim talks about Masscomp and the start of O'Reilly.
https://plus.google.com/+TimOReilly/posts/5cw5z69qZPg
> DocBook. Bleah.
Eric S. Raymond has a long-term plan underway to get all man-page source
moved to DocBook or asciidoc using his doclifter program, and convincing
projects to make the switch. Unfortunately, some have. DocBook stinks
and it shows how long the project has been going that Eric chose it back
when it and XML were still shiny.
He argues that decent-quality output, e.g. PDF, isn't required any more.
(I like man pages I'm reading from top to bottom in higher resolution
than a TTY, e.g. perl(1) when you could learn it from its single page.)
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7998
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
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2018-05-15 12:52 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-15 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-15 14:23 ` arnold
2018-05-15 15:56 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2018-05-15 16:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-15 16:53 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-15 16:55 ` arnold
2018-05-15 23:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 23:48 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-16 11:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 14:18 ` arnold
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2018-05-15 23:05 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-15 23:12 ` Noel Hunt
2018-05-25 7:01 ` aksr
2018-05-25 7:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 17:13 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-14 21:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-14 15:58 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-14 16:54 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-14 12:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-05-14 12:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 13:00 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-14 14:45 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 15:04 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 15:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 15:57 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 16:41 ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-05-14 18:13 ` arnold
2018-05-14 18:18 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-14 18:25 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 18:33 ` Warner Losh
2018-05-14 15:04 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 15:33 ` arnold
2018-05-14 21:32 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-05-14 21:35 ` Clem Cole
2018-05-14 16:37 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-05-14 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-14 23:42 ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-14 14:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-14 14:46 ` Clem cole
2018-05-14 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 14:07 ` Nemo
2018-05-15 14:37 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-15 14:55 ` Clem cole
2018-05-15 15:10 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-15 12:20 ` Doug McIlroy
2018-05-14 15:10 ` arnold
2018-05-13 5:55 Rudi Blom
2018-05-12 11:01 Noel Chiappa
2018-05-12 11:38 ` Clem cole
2018-05-12 18:56 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-13 13:52 ` Nemo
2018-05-15 1:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 1:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-15 2:06 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-15 2:22 ` Jon Steinhart
2018-05-15 2:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-15 2:45 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-15 4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 10:28 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-05-16 0:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-15 20:49 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-12 1:40 Nemo
2018-05-12 2:00 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 2:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 2:17 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 2:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 3:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-12 3:26 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-17 15:28 ` Blake McBride
2018-05-12 4:30 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-12 6:34 ` Dave Horsfall
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