In some email I received from Magnus Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 18 Jun
2003 13:26:14 +0200, wrote:

> lou wrote:
> > In some email I received from Roel Rozendaal - IC&S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 
> > Wed, 18 Jun 2003
> > 12:17:08 +0200, wrote:
[...]
> > Any other ideas? Since we manage to agree on the future existence of 
> > dbmail-doc.
> > There're some more stuff to be discussed. Forms and stuff, blahblah you 
> > know.
> > 
> I disagree on the LaTex issue, I believe we should use the 
> infrastructure from the Linux Documentation Project. To make it 
> consistent with most other documentation.

Dont even metion about infrastructure in Linux society,  in distributions yes, 
but not in
the whole lot, something that all *BSDs have. Just a thought.

> Another approach is some kind of databse driven manual, something 
> like the online mysql manual with comments.

I was mistaken when I said LaTeX i meant to say SGML/XML or 
DocBook - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook
after that it can imported to html/plain text/whatever you want.

The whole idea is to be generic format which is:
1) easily editable
2) easily importable
3) consistent
4) More?
 
> I doubt I will be writing any documents of the former type, but I 
> am quite shure I will contribute with comments to the later.

cheers

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