On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 09-06-2008 11:49:35 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > > 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" > > I think this is a bit of a pointless discussion. If people insist on > reading the source and are scared of LaTeX, then the same can happen for > any other language. PMS is available as pdf (or can easily being made > by typing `make`), which is readable IMO, and one could always try how > far one gets with a LaTeX->XML translator and XSLT transformations > afterwards. Still, what is the point of requiring language X over Y? I > for one prefer LaTeX over any of the formats you mentioned before, but > that should not be of any value here.
++ I personally have had no problems reading and/or understanding PMS, and I've had to reference a fair bit of it. I'd like to hear exactly who has problems with what sections and how to fix that. As Fabian said it really isn't a matter of "We like XML better than LaTeX!" It's not those people's perogative. The people who wrote PMS should be able to make the decision for themselves(as they will be maintaining it) as to what language to use. If they use LaTeX, more power to them, it's what enables them to do their job in the easiest way. You don't *have* to read PMS in LaTeX, which by the way makes my eyes bleed somewhat, you can read it in a very well done PDF. Regards, Thomas
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