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Re: DocBook 4.0: ClassSynopsis


On Tuesday 21 December 1999, at 10 h 26, the keyboard of Norman Walsh 
<ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> |   But this is mixed.  I understand the desire to make the names
> | similar to those of other, existing DocBook elements, but the lengthy
> | names are one of the reasons
...
> While I sympathize (even with Epic at my disposal, I do
> occasionally edit DocBook documents "by hand" :-), 

I certainly qualify as someone who edits everything by hand because I use only Emacs for creating DocBook documents and I prefer the long names. 

PSGML allow me not to type element names, so their length is irrelevant, but, when it displays a menu of legal element names at a given point, it is much better when they are readable, unless waht happens with LinuxDoc, where PSGML displays a meaningless list of two-letter acronyms, thus forcing me to read the documentation.


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