Re: Antwort: Re: DAVENPORT: Three more Questions.

[Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>]

Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> writes:

|   Try: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com -- it should be referenced on the
|   first page.

Nice try.  Nik said:

    [...] and has the source code available under a liberal (BSD for
    preference) license?

As you all know, I do like SGML a lot -- but reading Erik Naggum's
recent postings on SGML makes me think twice.

    From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
    Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml,comp.lang.lisp
    Subject: Re: data structure for markup text
    Date: 18 Jun 1999 17:05:12 +0000
    Message-ID: <3138714312189865@naggum.no>

And the followups.  Read and make up your mind.

The point is, if the author will know, how his writing will look in the
end he'll write accordingly.  You can't separate the author from the
document designer.  Both have to work together and often they are one
and the same person.

Of course, we're all different.  And SGML will work quite well for many
occasions, probably much better than proprietary or awkward solutions.

BTW, I just started to write some sections on Emacs, using docbock 3.1
with Norman Walsh's stylesheets:
http://www.franken.de/users/gnu/ke/emacs/emacs.html (in german).

-- 
Karl Eichwalder