On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:54:27AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
I have to say I've very -1 on anything that uses XML as a source
format for human written content. It is massively hostile to
authoring by hand.
Yes.
Prehistoric it is not. Old yes, showing its age yes. But prehistoric
is flat out incorrect.
The nice thing is I have a shellscript from the '80s when I was at BTL
Naperville (and rather a 'ROFF nerd) that still works nicely to generate a
man file. It works, and has outlived other doc formats that have not
caught on (such as info).
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat