Unlike my clients (who love programs like ACT! and Outlook with reasons I can't even begin to understand), I will happily be involved in this regardless of the chosen language for the documentation (as long as no one suggests Word....suggest Word and I will inflict the hell of FoxPro upon you!)
If we need a maintainer, I'll put my hand up for that task. I'm currently doing my second-last year of a BSc/BE(Software) and have a little experience in taking care of team projects. Chris On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 21:48, lou wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
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