Re: PROPOSAL: Help File Format Standardization

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:56:33PM -0700, Bowie Poag wrote:
>  The UISG proposes that..
> 
>  o All GNOME Application Help Text is to be written in HTML.
> 
>  o Why HTML? Simple. Plenty of authoring tools, its an accepted
>    standard, its portable, extensible, flexible, and clean. It
>    will also make the transition path for KDE developers a little
>    easier, once they've realize the error of their ways and start
>    developing for GNOME. ;)
> 
> Yes, I know about docbook.

disagree and strongly ... 

if docs are written they should be written in docbook ... they can be
converted to HTML and a large number of other formats from that with
no pain ... from HTML it's hard and almost impossible ...

however I'd say this has pretty much been decided a long time ago

George

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