Re: Docmentation/FAQs

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

> > > 1000's of options.....
> > Well not to be a curmudgeon but I will *not* use lyx or latex. I have no
> > problem with latex as a middle man formatter but I am not interested in
> > any way in using it for writing.
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> What exactly is your objection to LaTeX?

O.k. I don't want to start a war but here is the basics:

1. Our users, will not know it

2. Our users, will not want to know it

3. It is really not used that much outside of academia

4. It has largely been unsurped by other standards such as SGML/XML

5. We need to keep the bar for documentation as low as reasonably 
possible. Docbook does this because if you know basic html, you can do 
docbook. Heck you can even save to Docbook in some word processors.

6. There are miles better solutions in general for documentation 
regardless of docbook, including OpenOffice + a defined stylesheet which 
gives us ODP, HTML, DOC, and PDF.

Joshua D. Drake



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> Chris Travers
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