[Gllug] Getting Linux to work with Freeserve (Wanadoo) Broadband

Pete Ryland pdr at createservices.com
Thu Jul 1 16:40:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:13:34PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:28:56PM +0100, Ian Scott wrote:
> > Nearly fell off my chair laughing when I unpacked it and found their readme 
> > was in xml!
> 
> Funny :-) I guess it might make sense if it was Docbook XML format,
> and they'd preprocessed it for you into various formats (eg. text,
> HTML, TeX, PDF ...)  Docbook XML actually isn't such a bad way to
> write lengthy documents - if I was going to write a long, technical
> book, I might well consider it.

Doco's also fairly nice for when DocBook XML is overkill:

http://doco.sourceforge.net/

As you can see at:

http://doco.sourceforge.net/basic_cribsheet.txt

it's a markup language for which source documents are human readable.

Pete
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