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Re: Would you buy the DocBook book?
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Would you buy the DocBook book?
- From: Poet/Joshua Drake <poet at linuxports dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:10:52 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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Hello,
Fair enough --- but understand that would would edit it ;)
J
On 31 Oct 2001, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com> was heard to say:
>| OpenDocs publishing is considering publishing the 2.02 version of DocBook
>| the Definitive Guide.
>
>Please don't. The 2.0.2 version is entirely unready for print
>publication: it's a work in progress, slowly making a transformation
>from an SGML-centric book about DocBook 3.1 to a more XML-centric book
>about DocBook 4.x.
>
>Wait for 2.1.x, please. That's what that middle number is for :-)
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
>
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