>I feel that moving back to only plaintext is a step backwards. I don't >know much about SGML myself, so I'm not sure I'd want to be stuck >maintaining that, but it sounds interesting enough (and it would be nice >to have general tools for keeping the documentation formatted, instead of >worrying when htmlstrip would next break).
You could do worse than look at the Python documentation. The production doco is current LaTeX with a bunch of custom macros. HTML, PDF, etc are generated off the master LaTex markup. There is a background project to use SGML (I think), but it's not there yet. Our company (not me personally) looked at doco tools a while back and came to the conclusion that LaTeX was still the best choice out of a bad lot - SGML was the next closest, although the tools were still rather imature. -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/