Re: manual: little errors?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Steffen Macke wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:16:01 +0200
> From: Steffen Macke <sdteffen web de>
> Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> To: dia-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: manual: little errors?
>
> > I've been browsing around a bit, and failed to find a good explanation of
> > the benefits of XML DocBook over SGML DocBook.  Could you expand a bit on
> > why we should switch?
>
> * XML DocBook allows to build Windows HTML help files (*.chm)
>
> * The PDF created from XML DocBook contains a tree-view TOC
>
> * With the SGML DocBook I had a lot of problems to get it working,
> I think it is hopeless on Windows (Unless you're a real SGML expert).
> With the XML DocBook, you just install the EDE DocBook Environment
> on Windows and it works.

I meant to file a bug report earlier (and i will do soon) but i was
wondering why we have both a /doc and /help directory, and hopefully we
can merge them and make things a little cleaner.

Sincerely

Alan H.