From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:56:21 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Who used *ROFF? In-Reply-To: <201805151423.w4FENYlQ010613@freefriends.org> References: <201805151252.w4FCq3Fx002374@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <201805151423.w4FENYlQ010613@freefriends.org> Message-ID: <20180515155621.0B986200C2@orac.inputplus.co.uk> 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