Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:50:11 +0200
Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So how, specifically, is PMS "wrongly written", and why hasn't
anyone who thinks so bothered to provide details?
- rewrite it as an rfc using a markup among xmlrfc, docbook, guidexml.
What technical reason is there to use a markup that's more work for
those of us doing the writing? Writing XML is a huge pain in the ass
compared to latex.
More people can understand those markups, they are consistent with the
gentoo documentation, they look better on screen than on paper, tex is a
great typesetting markup to write academic books. Right tool for the
right task. It address the problem "PMS is anything but accessible"
- use EBNF when describing a syntax.
Is there any indication that this is any clearer? EBNF gets messy when
it comes to describing the whitespace rules, for example.
It is less ambiguous than natural language. That solves the issue "The
syntax is underspecified"
lu
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