One True Doc. Format was: manpage for GNU utilities?
On 24 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Just like you can never get to choose the one true editor, one
> can never decide on the one true documentation format.
Oh, I think you can. In the foreseeable future I see SGML emerging as the
one true format for documentation. Fortunately, with the application of
styles, it can be converted to other format mechanically (PostScript, PDF,
HTML, Info, RTF, troff, etc.)
> So, we let upstream authors provide documentation as they may,
> and convert it all to a common preferred format (HTML), since that
> format is dumb enough that it is the least common denominator and all
> kinds of automated conversion tools exist (man, sgml, latex, tex,
> pod, info, can all be converted to html).
I think it will probably be:
SGML + DTD ( LinuxDoc, DocBook, HTML?), trasformed into the readers
favourite format (Info, Man, etc.) by the application of stylesheets
(DSSSL)
Anyway, enough off topic writings from me
Anand.
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