We do include humour in QL Today from time to time, but try to make sure it's QL-related even if only indirectly. Roy does include his own little bits (I think there was one about films I personally might have been in or something in one Bytes of Wood) but personally, I'd like to have some form of connection to the QL even if only indirectly. People subscribe to QL Today because it contains QL stuff, but can see that some might like lighter stuff as well if of interest to QLers without being directly relevant. I'd happily go with the flow on this one I think.
I wasn't referring to humour, at least, I hadn't thought about it as such. I was thinking more along the lines of articles of a general computing nature.
For a possible example, I sometimes work with manuals, instructions whatever in DocBook format. Once written in this (specialised) XML format, a file can then be converted into an HTML document in many 'pages' (one per section) or into a single HTML document with everything in it, or to PDF format etc. The is done using XSLT which are templates that are applied to the source file and they produce the output format of choice either directly or indirectly.
As an article, I would only give an introduction to DocBook, a few small examples and point the reader in the general direction of a few Web sites for further information. As for XSLT and so on, I don't even know where to begin with that piece of Voodoo - it's well beyond me and my abilities.
One potential (and planned) use of DocBook is to convert my QDOS Internals web site (still unfinished) into DocBook and get the benefits of generating the HTML for the Web, plus downloadable files in the three different formats. And so on.
While we don't (yet) have anything remotely like this for the QL, who knows - the very thought of it might spur someone with the talent to do the job, on to actually doing it.
Cheers, Norman.
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