On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:53, Rene Rydhof Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
>> It's like riding a bicycle... :)
>
> In the sense that it is hard to learn and you can get seriously hurt if
> you don't do it right? :-)
>

Argh, no flamethrowing please :p

> In any case Francis, I'd be happy to put on my bicycle-helmet and help
> you with any LaTeX stuff you need.
>

Well, I still don't know what the ideal format should be. Having
practiced in the past, I know for sure that LaTex produces _very_ high
quality outputs, but I also know that having LaTeX configured right on
one's system can be as tedious as "[...] writing the decimals of pi
using Roman numerals" (citation from the Unix haters' handbook). I
could make the existing manuals in the git source tree build fine on
my Gentoo system, but I'm no beginner with Gentoo, git, or even,
LaTeX.

And then, it's kind of the "C against EBNF" factor, translated to "XML
against LaTeX": many more people can read and write XML than LaTeX,
which is why I was thinking about DocBook.

This is not to say I deny the value of what has been written, quite
the opposite. Just that a wider access to read/write requires a more
vernacular language. What's more, DocBook outputs are plenty, HTML
included.

-- 
Francis Galiegue, [email protected]
"It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence'
tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have
nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The
Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5)
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