On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:19:51 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 17:58, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > The 'write a script to control the printer' method. > > TeX > > SGML > > I can introduce these and very happily defer to other speakers. > > e.g. I know Michael Jason Smith is far more qualified to speak on TeX, and > > LaTeX than I ever will be. > I am quite familiar with coding LaTeX and Docbook-XML by hand, and I > have been known to attack PostScript files when they are looking the > other way. I have also created troff files in the past, but I have been > in therapy and those memories are nicely suppressed in favour of > Docbook-XML [1]. So I guess I can give a run-down on markup languages in > general, and technical writing in particular… > > I was also thinking about another talk on the command-line; similar to > parts of Nick's talk, but with more of an overview of the entire > command-line ethos, and less about Linux in general. Comments? > yes my newbie talk was originally going to be about "what do i do the first time i sit down at the linux desktop" I abandoned that as I wanted it to be distro and desktop agnostic, and because it is probably something more suited to be done immediately after an installfest. it then became more command line oriented, more of a collection of tips than any central theme. I'd like to see a "Part II" with some more info on the command line, like environment variables, paths, basic piping/redirection and basic scripting. intro to tools like grep, sed, awk. also an overview of the major system daemons - cron, syslogd, ntpd, xinetd, and the system startup procedure. speak now people, are people interested in understanding the intimacies of their system, or do they just want superficial recipes to make gadgets work? > [1] Docbook-XML has tags for creating man-pages :) > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/ > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
