Re: The gnome-help.2

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net>]

Andy Smith <ams70@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> LaTeX is certainly a big improvement over TeX wrt semantic markup
> (fair enough since TeX wasn't designed for that), but it's still
> fairly half-assed about it compared to good SGML/XML DTDs or even to
> Texinfo.

Agreed.  But it doesn't hurt to define own semantic markup -- and it's
encouraged to write docs this way.

> LaTeX docs tend to rely on a big mess of add-on packages

And so do SGML/XML docs ;)

It's much less time consuming to write a nice looking LaTeX/Texinfo
document than an SGML document.  Nevertheless to choose SGML as the
document storage format is much much better (ISO standard, etc.).

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