On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 09:30:04PM +0000, David Tweed wrote:
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>
> Also it's not a rant about Debian: I admire debian's commitment to
> providing documentation and, inasmuch as man pages appear to be
> predominant, they have to go with that. It just really irks me that
> the unix-derived world the standard for documentation is in a language
> that's _only_ used for manual pages. Hell, I've learned (or at least had
> to at some points produce stuff in) tex,latex,hmtl, xml, docbook,pythondoc,
> doxygen, and I'm kinda bored with it all.
>
What! I have been using n|t|groff for reports, technical
docs, letters and, occasionally, man pages, for years.
Others use it to write books ....
Never had a need to learn anything else.
Rgds,
-- Mike Bishop 907/495-5737 mbishop_AT_mtaonline.net Willow, AlaskaReceived on Mon Sep 25 2006 - 06:16:13 UTC
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