> Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Not everyone has sgml tools on their local machine, do they?
> 
> > But everyone committing changes to docs does, or should have, sgml tools
> > on *their* machines. Right??
> 
> I think it's a bad idea to create such a policy; anything we do that
> raises the bar for docs contributions will just mean that we have less
> and worse documentation.  Hasn't our past policy always been "submit
> whatever you want, even plain text, and we'll fix the markup later"?
> 
> If you want to see the effects of such a policy, you need look no
> further than Jan, who still has not committed one line of documentation
> about the pgstats views because he doesn't want to be bothered with
> SGML.
> 
> If Bruce wants to expend a lot of cycles on his machine to provide fast
> turnaround of docs changes, that's fine with me.

I also have the SGML build log with errors in _red_!  Nifty feature.

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