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Subject: [Scsh-hackers] Language for the manual
From: Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: 14 Feb 2001 11:26:32 +0100
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>>>>> "Mike" == Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

>>>>> "Olin" == shivers  <shivers@cc.gatech.edu> writes:
Olin> A related question is: should we switch over to an xml or sgml format
Olin> for the manual source?

Mike> Why?  LaTeX makes for a pretty decent source language for generating
Mike> these things.  I write most of my manuals with Hyperlatex --- it's
Mike> fairly simple, and it works.  Lately, Dorai Sitaram's tex2page and
Mike> maybe Hevea seem to have become options as well.

I found a student I could hire to do the conversion. She wants to
start 04/01 so I think we should seize the opportunity. I would prefer
to stay at something latex based, but I didn't ever use any of the tools
Mike mentioned.

What do the others think? 

-- 
Martin


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