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Re: question
- To: Camille Bégnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>@ciberia.es
- Subject: Re: question
- From: Horacio MG <homega at ciberia dot es>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:42:21 +0200
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org, Mary Yeager <myeager at elliott-turbo dot com>,Debra Newill <dnewill at elliott-turbo dot com>
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- Reply-to: hacho at crosswinds dot net
El mié, 19 de jul de 2000, a las 10:03:10 +0200, Camille Bégnis dijo:
>
> Does not help a lot...
It doesn't really, and the funniest part of it is that, after using it
for a while, I still find it a bit of an abstract.
> In simple terms, it is kind of a programmation language which allows the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> generation of many output formats (HTML, PostScript, RTF, etc.) when
> writting documentation, from one single dource SGML file. The code
> (written in DocBook "language") is preferably generated manually, so
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that it is not a WYSIWYG way of writting doc.
First off let me apologize before hand in case I'm completely wrong
here.
I find those two "definitions" of DocBook rather misguiding. For all I
know, DocBook is a "document type definition", i.e. a set of "definining
rules" for some elements to be used with some "typographic languages"
such as (and so far limited to) SGML and XML.
Of course you've been careful enough to use "kind of ..." and to write
language in between quotations here, but still...
Regards,
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Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C.
hacho@crosswinds.net Valencia - ESPAÑA
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