>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih_at_eunetnorge.no> writes:

    Tom> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen_at_xemacs.org> writes:

    >> Building the whole manual from scratch is non-trivial because
    >> it is based on fairly ancient text processing technology, [...]

    Tom> What's ancient about it?  I see DocBook documentation being
    Tom> processed by various SGML tools to generate various
    Tom> presentation formats.  I'd call that a smart, modern way to
    Tom> do it...  :-)

All of it?  Some of it is, but last I looked closely much of the
documentation was still based on linuxsgml and other cruft.


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