-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > > I found DocBook to be really easy. All I needed was ... > > You people are making a classic mistake, in not realizing what the > user (Derek, in this case) ) really means. Derek's a bright fellow; > he understands things much more arcane than DocBook, and I'm sure > DocBook is will within his capabilities to understand, if he wanted > to.
While this is true (and I'm aware you're being somewhat facetious), the next part is just slightly off the mark... > Derek's issue here is that he hates writing documentation. No > amount of technology is going to change that. :-) Actually I don't really mind writing documentation, though I certainly don't love it. The real problem is that I have no interest in learning some semi-arcane formatting language to do it. That's what computers are for: to take the tedium out of tasks. What I want is an editor that lets me just write what I have to say and takes care of inserting all the obscure formatting tags for me. Or, best put, I want Lyx to have better DocBook support and a less visually abrasive user interface. I really don't like looking at Xforms applications (or Tk, or Motif, or Athena for that matter). Paul L. will no doubt pipe up here with a "function over form" comment, to which I generally would agree... But I'll also add that it doesn't always matter how functional a thing is if you can't stand to look at it. :) - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8s1MRdjdlQoHP510RAhvyAKCV68XUht0rS4uWiGMCzIetGoQCEgCgvlZ5 vKRB6KDWKOL/5qOvTMP4zrI= =Q8ve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
