Re: manual: little errors?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 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.

We do?  I don't see no /help directory.  Is that perhaps a Win32ism?

-Lars

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