Wade Hampton (whampton@staffnet.com)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:11:10 -0500
Martin Wheeler wrote:
>
> 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?)
Great idea -- maybe an author's kit with tools, guide, and a couple
of sample documents?
>
> > 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?)
Yep.... It will grow, and grow fast if done properly....
Cheers,
-- W. Wade, Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>Linux is new, it's come out of nowhere, it's free. Hard to beat that price. And it's taking marketshare left and right.
--Microsoft's lawyer, in closing argument, Bristol v. Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/bti/07-15closing.htm
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