[linux-audio-user] "Linux fx box how to" WAS: some thoughts about Linux audio software documentation

John Check j4strngs at bitless.net
Mon Aug 16 04:29:04 EDT 2004


On Saturday 14 August 2004 03:14 pm, Ruth A. Kramer wrote:
> John Check wrote:
> > IMO, you should do plain text, then mark it up.
> > The best thing after doing the text version to hand it over to an SGML
> > person, then it's trivial to generate other formats.
>
> A problem with SGML is that it is not trivial for someone else to update
> (or am I missing something).  Wikis are better in that regard.
>

What you say is true, but I didn't say he should have it marked up now, just 
use plain text as the composition format and stuff it in a wiki later. 

It's also easier to go 
text>wiki
      \>sgml>other formats 
than 
wiki>other formats

Wikis have their place.

> Randy Kramer



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