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On 09-06-2008 11:49:35 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:50:11 +0200 |
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>> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> So how, specifically, is PMS "wrongly written", and why hasn't |
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>>>> anyone who thinks so bothered to provide details? |
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>>> - rewrite it as an rfc using a markup among xmlrfc, docbook, guidexml. |
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>> What technical reason is there to use a markup that's more work for |
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>> those of us doing the writing? Writing XML is a huge pain in the ass |
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>> compared to latex. |
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> More people can understand those markups, they are consistent with the |
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> gentoo documentation, they look better on screen than on paper, tex is a |
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> great typesetting markup to write academic books. Right tool for the |
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> right task. It address the problem "PMS is anything but accessible" |
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I think this is a bit of a pointless discussion. If people insist on |
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reading the source and are scared of LaTeX, then the same can happen for |
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any other language. PMS is available as pdf (or can easily being made |
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by typing `make`), which is readable IMO, and one could always try how |
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far one gets with a LaTeX->XML translator and XSLT transformations |
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afterwards. Still, what is the point of requiring language X over Y? I |
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for one prefer LaTeX over any of the formats you mentioned before, but |
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that should not be of any value here. |
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>>> - use EBNF when describing a syntax. |
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>> Is there any indication that this is any clearer? EBNF gets messy when |
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>> it comes to describing the whitespace rules, for example. |
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> It is less ambiguous than natural language. That solves the issue "The |
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> syntax is underspecified" |
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Perhaps some examples showing the syntax could improve the situation here? |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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