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<h1>Re: Patch to 0.71 spec file</h1>
<b>Hugo van der Kooij</b> (<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@caiw.nl"><i>hvdkooij@caiw.nl</i></a>)<br>
<i>Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:50:00 +0200 (MET DST)</i>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0226.html">Rogier Wolff: "Re: Linux Sense buffer (was: sane 0.71 and microtek E3)"</a>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:06:34 +0200 (MET DST), Hugo van der Kooij &lt;<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@caiw.nl">hvdkooij@caiw.nl</a>&gt; said:</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt;   Hugo&gt; Unfortunatly the HTML documentation is missing at present. Due</i><br>
<i>&gt;   Hugo&gt; to the ackwarc TeX to HTML convertor used.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; What do you mean?  Install dlh and the original spec will work fine</i><br>
<i>&gt; (at least as far as the documentation is concerned).</i><br>
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But dlh is not quite standard. And frankly I don't like the output of<br>
LaTeX to HTML convertors.<br>
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<i>&gt;   Hugo&gt; I would suggest the documentation is done in SGML.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I heard your suggestion the first time.  Personally, I do not like</i><br>
<i>&gt; writing SGML sources.  It's much easier for me to write LaTeX and I</i><br>
<i>&gt; can produce PS, PDF, HTML from it, which works just fine for me.  If</i><br>
<i>&gt; someone wants to rewrite the docs in sgml that's perfectly fine with</i><br>
<i>&gt; me, but please don't tell others what they should and should not do.</i><br>
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Well. As a large part of the SANE users are Linux oriented and the<br>
majority of Linux documentation is done with SGML I would definitly<br>
prefer SGML. And SGML is not that difficult for some used to LaTeX.<br>
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So if a project like this has to really get of the ground we have to agree<br>
to some sort of standard for documentation. My vote will be for the use of<br>
SGML. Withou same sort of agreement on this this project may be heavily<br>
cripled by inconsistent or missing documentation.<br>
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Hugo.<br>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0226.html">Rogier Wolff: "Re: Linux Sense buffer (was: sane 0.71 and microtek E3)"</a>
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