On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:
>Ok, calming down: texinfo has never catched on outside of the GNU area
>apart from very few exceptions. Thats largely due to the
>unfriendliness of the accompanying software and also due to the fact
>that the underlying technology is almost as old as groff is -- ok, it
>can do hypertext. Thats all it has to offer.
>
>In the meantime, SGML/XML came along and took the world by storm --
>because their semantic encoding is something new and usefull. The
>accompanying software is great (and available from lots of different
>parties) and it even supports old legacy formats like groff-mandoc in
>one fell swoop. Now, thats are *good* reasons to change the format.
Agreed. Docbook seems to be the documentation choice du jour. I
have no idea anything other than that though. I haven't seen any
docbook docs, and have no idea how to create or read them.
As soon as I find out, something else will have replaced it.
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