RE: Authorship

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lawyer [mailto:dave@lafn.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: Gregory Leblanc; ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org
> Subject: Re: Authorship
> 
[snip]
> Actually, the use of minimal tags for DocBook might be a good idea if
> it could be made a "standard" and if it's not hard to implement.  But
> this is a long-term project (and rather low-priority for the LDP).  So
> I'm retracting it with a but ...  My apologies to both Gregory Leblanc
> and Gary Preckshot for having to disagree with me on something which I
> wrote by mistake.

Can you define "minimal tags"?  I've got no idea what that means.

> What I propose is to have a "Quick-start with LinuxDoc" section of the
> HOWTO-HOWTO that will present the option of just using LinuxDoc
> starting from either template.sgml (or example.sgml which I think is
> better).  It will not explain (or even mention) any concepts of sgml
> such as Jade, DSSSL, DTDs, etc.  There should be a pointer to it in
> the introduction of HOWTO-HOWTO so that people who do not want to use
> DocBook can jump directly to it.  They will be able to do LinuxDoc
> manually using whatever editor/word-processor they already know how to
> use.

What do you think is better about example.sgml than template.sgml?
	Greg


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