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Re: primitive documentation conventions


>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <marcusd@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu> writes:

    Marcus> I'm saying that in order to do DocBook at all, you need to
    Marcus> have a lot of infrastructure (DTDs, Jade, stylesheets),
    Marcus> and that users won't have it.  This implies that the
    Marcus> DocBook source will need to be preprocessed for the users,
    Marcus> much like Texinfo is preprocessed into Info.  So long as
    Marcus> there is preprocessing going on, there's no point in
    Marcus> minimizing the number of required tools.

 All of those tools are readily available (and are being maintained)
 as part of Debian GNU/Linux.  It would be simple for users of other
 OS's to grab the Debian source, and compile it for their machine, I
 think.