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Subject: Re: Writing free documentation/GNOME books
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From: "David C. Mason" <dcm@redhat.com>
Date: 26 May 1999 15:20:04 -0400
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"Tuomas J. Lukka" <lukka@fas.harvard.edu> writes:

> Except that it's a beast to write.


Well, I disagree I think Tex is much more of a beast. 


> 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.


I don't mean this as a flame, but if people spent as much time working
on parsers and other free sgml tools as they do conversion tools it
could be better than the commercial sgml offerings - and easier than
any other mark-ups.

Dave

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