Re: Adding some GNU documentation

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:36:29AM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Well, I've only been doing docs for just over half a year. If you
>     don't mind that, I wouldn't mind at all.
> 
> On something as central to the GNU Project as this, I had better work
> on the text carefully myself.

  Well I think the project members will review it anyway.

>     And should we be looking into having it sgml (or xml) in cvs as well?

  yes since our documentation format is SGML and soon XML.

> I don't know.  What benefits would that provide?  I don't have a way
> to produce those format myself; what formats can you generate them
> from?

  A text editor will do it. None are binary formats, and both are standardized
and fairly common now. They are source format, the question is rather what do
you want to generate them from ?

Daniel

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