[Haskell] Making Haskell more open

Benjamin Franksen benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Fri Nov 11 21:01:12 EST 2005


On Saturday 12 November 2005 02:30, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2005 13:56, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 10. November 2005 12:27 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > 	* The GHC user manual [currently generated using DocBook]
> >
> > I think it should continue to be written in DocBook.  (It should
> > switch to DocBook XML if it's still using SGML DocBook.)  XML
> > documents are "type-safe" in contrast to LaTeX documents, for
> > example.  XML is well supported.  DocBook stresses logical markup
> > and allows very specific markup and therefore supports conversion
> > into different formats (HTML, PDF, ...) very well. Again, what do
> > others think?
>
> Yes. In fact I like the current GHC manual as it is.

Sorry, that comment seems to miss the point. What I wanted to say is: 
However the source format is going to be changed to better support user 
contributions, I would like it to remain similar in its (processed) end 
user appearance.

Ben


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