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<li><em>From</em>: David Merrill &lt;<A HREF="mailto:dcmerrill@mindspring.com">dcmerrill@mindspring.com</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:56:28 -0400</li>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Chuck Dale wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; So, am I going a good direction with this? Too many
&gt; &gt; &gt; comments? Too few?
&gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; Greg
&gt; &gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; &gt; I'm assuming this is aimed at the extreme novice Docbook
&gt; &gt; &gt; author; if so, you're
&gt; &gt; &gt; right to err on the side of overkill.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; ok, I'll stick with lots of comments.
&gt;
&gt; Ah I'll throw a paddle back in the other direction: way too many
&gt; comments. The template needs to be concise to be usable, and some things
&gt; are overkill. Like this:
[...]
I agree with Chuck. I'd rather the template be just that -- a template. No more
and no less. With the entire text of DocBook: TDG available online, there's an
excellent reference available to everyone, to explain the meaning of any tag.
I have a bias toward keeping all the documentation together in one document,
the LDP-Authoring-HOWTO, instead of spread out between there and comments in
the template(s). I see the template as a kind of &quot;Appendix&quot;, or supplemental
material, to the Authoring-HOWTO. It doesn't need to stand on its own.
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David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
dcmerrill@mindspring.com
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<li><strong><a name="02847" href="msg02847.html">RE: Blank template</a></strong>
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