Martin Wheeler (mwheeler@startext.co.uk)
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:36:55 +0000 (GMT)
Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> This is something that I've been working on phrasing half this well for
> the LDP. Thanks.
Well, thank *you*. Feel free to use the text anywhere you like.
> There is one more KEY piece to this that's at least
> as important as having editors; having what I'm going to call an
>"authors guide". This could just as easily be called an "editors
> guide", but the idea is to define a clear set of conventions that will
> be used for documents, and lays out what that coherent form and
> structure are supposed to be. Without this, it's hard to know whether
> the documents are actually following that structure.
Absolutely. Couldn't agree more.
Anyone got a writer's guide / style manual we could use as a basis to
develop this? (OSWG? LDP? Debian-doc?)
> I don't claim to be all that SMGL-savvy, but I wrote a 5 level outline
> using DocBook SGML using only Norm's book on DocBook. It's not that
> hard to pick up, and I could certainly handle the easy SGML stuff.
> Count me in on that team (and on the similar team for the LDP if it ever
> gets formed a little better).
Counted in. (What are we letting ourselves in for, I wonder?)
And as for not being savvy -- if any of us really thoroughly knew what we
were doing, we shouldn't be here in the first place.
(That's why we're all playing Linux -- isnt it?)
msw
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