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Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook
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- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Where, what and how - The future of DocBook
- From: Matthew Harrison <m dot harrison at inpharmatica dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:12:47 +0000
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Michael Smith writes:
> I read a thread on the LDP list in which a writer said that one
> advantage of LinuxDoc was its short element names. It baffled me why
> he would care how long the names were -- until I realized he was
> probably typing them by hand using a regular text editor.
>
Shorter tags make the source slightly easier to read, as the content is less
obscured by the markup. Less of a problem in psgml with nice layout and syntax
highlighting, and even less in a WYSIWYM ("...you mean" a la Lyx) editor.
Matthew Harrison.