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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: if SGML is so great...</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Kevin Turner <<A HREF="mailto:Kevin.Turner@oberlin.edu">Kevin.Turner@oberlin.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 3 May 2000 00:38:36 -0700</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg02210.html">m34s8g2k8g.fsf@maya.linux.ca</a>>; from garym@canada.com on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:58:23AM -0400</li>
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On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:58:23AM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
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> >>>>> "K" == Kevin Turner <Kevin.Turner@oberlin.edu> writes:
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> K> The last time someone asked for help with this on the Open
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> K> Source Writer's Group list [1] (I think it was for the
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> K> "Replacing NT with Linux HOWTO"), no less than four volunteers
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> K> signed up to help with the transition.
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>
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> And what happens with the updates? As I've said before, the Linux
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> kernel will welcome a really clever hack in VBasic, but they won't
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> tolerate continual updates in that form (unless it is blazingly
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> brilliant)
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> I think the LDP needs to be exactly the same.
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Do you?
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I guess I haven't paid any attention to the submission queue, but it was
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not my impression that you had so many good authors that you were at
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leisure to pick and choose among them. Rather, my impression of the
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atmosphere was that the free software as a community as a whole needs
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more documentation desperately, and so I would think you would welcome
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good content in whatever form you could get it.
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If, on the other hand, you believe "Most of what we want has already
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been written, it's just so poorly organized that we need structure to
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find it," *then* you have reason to be picky about the syntax, rather
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than the content.
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Could this bit of matinance be viewed as an acceptible cost? Many other
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roles in software development have seen similar divisions of labour.
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When the programmer of FooApp releases the new version, the package
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maintainer curses and swears that he's changed the pathnames again, and
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the translator groans at all the little changes in punctuation to the
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strings he has to re-translate, but the three of them end up with a much
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more useful package than the programmer had when he started, and it's
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certainly nothing the package maintainer could have done on his own.
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And seriously, someone who writes plain-text doing in-place edits on a
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docbook file is probably going to do very little damage. Unlike putting
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VB code in the kernel, it'll probably still compile, and even be
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readable at that.
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> Is that Deb who is fleeing the country?
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Indeed. Well, from my point of view, anyway. To you, she's an
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immigrant. ;)
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--
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Kevin Turner <acapnotic@users.sourceforge.net> | OpenPGP encryption welcome here
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Kevin Turner <Kevin.Turner@oberlin.edu></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="02210" href="msg02210.html">Re: if SGML is so great...</a></strong>
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