Re: Writing a book w/F16?

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On 12/10/2011 12:17 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 13:57 +0100, NOSpaze wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 20:50 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2011 08:34 PM, Craig White wrote:
>>>> is there any doubt who this NOSpaze is?
>>> Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
>>>
>>> Why do you ask?
>> Yea thats me, why do you ask? are you my neighbor?
> ----
> I was wrong... in that case, I will answer.
>
> sgml has long been used for professional publishing ( see adobe
> framemaker).
>
> The idea is that you can use fast/simple editors such as vi or emacs and
> put in your own markup tags and save the processing (ie, generate
> toc/footnotes/end notes/appendix/etc.) for later.
>
> WYSIWYG is an obstacle to writing but is in fact an artifact of
> publishing and in that case, you can merely concentrate on writing and
> leave all of the stylizing until the writing is finished.
>
> Seemed to me to be a more than adequate suggestion that you mocked.
>

I will point out that IETF documents (Internet Drafts and RFCs) are now 
written in XML with standard style sheets and there is a web site with 
the conversion tools:  http://xml.resource.org/

There is a plugin for XXE that some people use.  I tried it, but now I 
just use gedit on the 'raw' xml for all of my Internet Draft writing.

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