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Re: printable online docs


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 05:27:47AM -0500, James R. Dunson wrote:
>   In the meantime, IMO the most useful formats to have the docs in is some 
> sort of "source" format that is the official version, and to have readily 
> available converters for plain ASCII, HTML and PDF that preserve as much of 
> the structure as practical in their respective formats.  A direct 
> Postscript version might occasionally be handy for printing, but I suspect 
> that anyone who needs that can use Ghostscript off of the PDF format, so it 
> would be a much lower priority.  The source format should probably be based 
> on ASCII with tags, so that it is amenable to various sorts of diff, grep, 
> and patch commands.
i agree totally on that one, as sayd some xml like format, even if not
docbook, would be IHMO nice....

even xHTML would do...


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