On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:44:39AM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp says "We use DebianDoc SGML for > our documents", and the policy says the same. However, more > and more documents in and for Debian are in fact written using > DocBook/XML. My plea is to officially allow DocBook/XML. > > (My personal reasons for preferring DocBook/XML: > - more mainstream, used by many large projects > - easy to generate *roff manual pages > - good-looking PDFs using db2latex-xsl > - I can use Emacs nxml-mode > - WYSIWYG addicts can use the non-free editor XXE or Conglomerate, who is in main ( apt-get install conglomerate ) > - supports images, tables, etc. > - relatively good support for many languages > YMMV, of course) > > What do you think? That it is a good thing to go the XML way. > My plea is to officially allow DocBook/XML. How will the transcient look? ( How will the switch over look?) Cheers Geert Stappers
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