[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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