Re: Proposal to abandon the HAM-HOWTO in its current form.

[Terry Dawson]

On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:00:58PM -0400, Bruce O. Benson wrote:

> Eric Raymond sat down with me once ansd showed me how he collated/edited 
> the last
> edition of the HOWTOs.  Basically he whipped all of the authors into a
> single format that could be easily typeset adn put up as HTML.  I think it
> was SGML....I could ask if need be.  But the point is valid -- no matter

Nice of Eric to take credit for the use of SGML which predates his
involvement with the LDP by some years. What Eric added was an indexing
hack to the LinuxDoc DTD, nothing else. The LDP has had a policy insisting
that HOWTO document be marked up against the LinuxDoc DTD for some years
now. I'm sure you're confusing what he said with what you think he said.

Did Eric also tell you how/why he didn't include non-mainstream documents
like the AX25 and HAM HOWTO's in his effort? :) Heck, the IPX-HOWTO didn't
even make it.

Terry

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