On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:23:16AM -0800, Richard Broersma wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > > > You might be, but that's approximately what happened. Common editors > > for this task are Emacs and Vim, each of which has varying levels of > > support for SGML :) > > That is amazing. The layout and organization of the PostgreSQL manual > (to me) is superior to most other reference documents that I view.
I suspect it's from steely discipline, attention to quality, and the toolkits themselves. > Was there some sort of specification for the create of these documents > or was it simply the implementation of good practices? I notice for > example all reference pages have a consistent layout. Well, there's the whole Docbook thing, which was pretty well thought out. Apart from that, I don't know. Peter? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
