[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Mon Nov 14 05:18:03 EST 2005


Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:22 schrieb Gour:
> [...]

> But don't forget, as it was already stated, get the whole working-chain
> ready for authoring in Docbook is not at all ready and for one not
> proficient in emacs with SGML mode it is very difficult to write texts with
> so many tags.

You should never use Emacs' SGML mode for authoring DocBook *XML*, nor should 
you use Emacs' ordinary XML mode.  Use nXML, it's a lot better.

> [...]

> How many tags from DocBook DTD are actually used in GHC manual

What's the problem if only a very little amount of "tags" is used in the GHC 
manual?  This might be an argument *for* using DocBook.

> and how many of them are required for HTML output?

I have to stress that HTML is not the only output format which should be 
supported.

> Sincerely,
> Gour

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


More information about the Haskell-Cafe mailing list