Re: Writing free documentation/GNOME books

["Tuomas J. Lukka" <lukka fas harvard edu>]

On 26 May 1999, David C. Mason wrote:
> Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org> writes:
> > On 26 May 1999, David C. Mason wrote:
> > 
> > > After this is done if we don't have an indexed/searchable browser for
> > > all of this, it doesn't matter much. If you are more hacker than
> > > writer then start working on this.
> > 
> > Will this documentation be written in Texinfo, so that it can be read and
> > searched in an info browser?
> 
> SGML with DocBook DTD... just as good, if not better for searching.

Except that it's a beast to write.

I'm lazily thinking of some Perl tools that would allow you to interconvert
SGML <-> pod while saving the markup information, so that editing would
be easier.

	Tuomas