On Sunday, 21 July 2002 at 17:42:17 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Willcox writes: >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:32:13AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: >>> >>> I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my >>> masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers >>> still use it in earnest? >> >> As I understand it, W. Richard Stevens wrote all of his books in troff. >> Of course he died a few years back so is no longer using it. But my >> guess is that were he still alive today, he'd still be using troff. > > And until somebody shows me a way to edit DocBook where 8% of my screen > estate isn't occupied by the XML tags, I'll probably be using [nt]roff > as well.
IMO the tags aren't the problem with DocBook. It's just *really* difficult to get good-looking results with. I've actually converted the FreeBSD book into DocBook (anybody want a perl script?), but jade can't format it, and gmat is a real kludge. Theoretically, DocBook is better, but I want something that works. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
