On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:49:14PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
>
>
> > Oh, and yes: we'll need a Pilot doc-formatted manual, won't we?
>
> Which is one reason troff/man is better considered an *output*
> format... something like docbook (which is what Solaris now uses for
> man, and I think freebsd has used for a while?) to generate roff for
> "man" users, and html for feeding to palm-doctoolkit (dtk) to generate
> nicely formatted doc, is one possibility for a Better Way...
Yes'n'no ...
For most simple man page formats, something like Perl's POD format
works okay; for more complex stuff, SDF (a superset of POD that has lots
of whizzy extras like table generation and output to RTF and MIF) looks
interesting. I'm fairly dubious about SGML document types in general,
in the absence of decent, open source, DTD-driven editors: emacs is a pig
(in my humble opinion), and there doesn't seem to be any decent
alternative for Linux as yet. (If you know of one, please point me at
it! NB: I know about LyX's Linuxdoc mode, and it just ain't powerful
enough.)
-- Charlie
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