Re: Wishlist item: provide source for documentation

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:23:31AM -0700, Mark P Jones wrote:
> At this time, we do not distribute sources for the Hugs documentation,
> and have some strong reservations about changing our policy on this.

I respect your position, of course, but it would be nice if you could
enlighten me on why you have such reservations and what they are.

> For information, the documentation is actually written using LaTeX macros,
> and a custom script (written in Haskell, of course) is used to generate
> the html version.  I don't believe I've ever even heard of DocBook!

Well, it was a good guess, given that all I had to go on was the result ;-)
(Of course, now that I look at real docbook output, I see it does not
actually look like your docs... oh well)

Docbook is a well-known SGML DTD for technical (especially computer-related)
documentation. http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/

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