Jameson Burt wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
JB> The HAM-HOWTO should at least appear to be more recent than
JB> April 1, 1997. To ease preparing documents, I write scripts to
JB> include numerous documents in LaTeX, from which I port the
JB> LaTeX documents to other formats (like HTML and postscript).
The HOWTO documents are, as Terry has noted, written in a standard format
defined by a particular SGML DTD. Tools exist for automatically exporting
conforming documents to TeX, HTML, and other common formats.
JB> Because the HAM-HOWTO has not been updated in 2 years, someone
JB> new should take over its maintenance. I can think of a couple
JB> extra class HAMs who spend much time writing for the HAM Radio
JB> community; eg, Dave Cherlin NS1Y, Bob Cromwell, ...
Please don't make comments like that.
JB> You might rename the HAM-HOWTO to HAM-RADIO-HOWTO. HAM has
JB> contexts more than just radio; eg, I once thought HAM-HOWTO
JB> pertained to the Debian ham distribution (Debian version 2.0
JB> named after the character Ham in Toy Story).
The Toy Story character (and Debian distribution) is "Hamm," with two m's.
-- Mike
