Re: [Usability] The future of gup in developer and bugzilla

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 24 Jan 2006, at 18:43, Shaun McCance wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 18:31 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 18:44 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
> > > En/na Calum Benson ha escrit:
>
> > Hmm yes, true enough.  Have to admit I'd personally be quite happy to
> > move away from DocBook (perhaps just to plain old HTML) for the HIG
> > anyway, as it's kind of hard to take stylistic advice very seriously
> > from a document that looks a bit crap :)  But of course, we lose the
> > ability to easily generate PDFs from plain HTML.  (I have similar
> > reservations about using anything vaguely wiki based for such large
> > documents-- I've yet to see any done well.)
>
> It's only crap output because the XSLT you're using produces
> crap output.  There's nothing inherent about DocBook that makes
> the output crap.

Agreed, but I haven't seen anything I'd consider notably better from  
anyone else using the same technology, which makes me think there's  
more than a trivial amount of work involved to significantly improve  
the output.  Of course, I'd be very happy to be wrong :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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