Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Murray Stokely wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: You said that most written things are hierarchical. Sorry, I strongly disagree, I disagree also. Nobody on this thread said that except you. Your

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-26 Thread Murray Stokely
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: You said that most written things are hierarchical. Sorry, I strongly disagree, I disagree also. Nobody on this thread said that except you. Your

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Murray Stokely wrote: Yea, that is a good point. The one last thing I meant to add was that in general I think we have plenty of people in the doc project that can work to render the documentation and work on the stylesheets and presentation and

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-25 Thread Murray Stokely
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: You said that most written things are hierarchical. Sorry, I strongly disagree, I disagree also. Nobody on this thread said that except you. Your entire response is based on this significant mis-quote. What I did say,

text formatting tools.

2009-01-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just felt like venting my own opinions on what's the current best toolset for writing documents. I think that this opinion isn't a popular one, but that's what this list is for. I'll give you all of my reasons, so at least you'll know what to argue

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-24 Thread Murray Stokely
Yea, that is a good point. The one last thing I meant to add was that in general I think we have plenty of people in the doc project that can work to render the documentation and work on the stylesheets and presentation and such. What we really need is simply more authors. Text can be submitted

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: big snip Another advantage of XML is greater familiarity with the toolset amongst the target authorship. I dare say a number of people have tackled the