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Re: INFO on add-ons
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: INFO on add-ons |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 06:48:52 +0200 (IST) |
On 5 Sep 2002, Miles Bader wrote:
> > > What's so great about <kindex key="C-x k"/> compared to @kindex C-x k ?
> > > What's so great about <sample>foobar</sample> compared to @sample{foobar}
> > > ?
> >
> > The user base. What do you think is the percentage of the technically
> > oriented people, especially "newcomers", that feel more comfortable with
> > the former? Why should a "newcomer" who has a choice learn Texinfo if
> > she already knows XML?
>
> I'd guess that the `user base' of XML falls into two camps:
>
> (1) Those who are afraid of any markup language, and would insist on
> using a structure editor or something. These people don't `know
> XML'.
>
> (2) People who actually know XML. These people will pick up
> texinfo's syntax in about 35 seconds (both syntaxes are really
> almost trivial).
Yes. In my experience (with reviewing docs written by others and
teaching them basic Texinfo), picking up Texinfo markup is the least of
your problems when writing documentation. Especially since Emacs makes
it so easy to produce the markup with simple key sequences.
- Re: INFO on add-ons, (continued)
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stefan Monnier, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Ville Skyttä, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Miles Bader, 2002/09/05
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/06
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/09/04
- Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/04
Re: INFO on add-ons, David A. Cobb, 2002/09/02
Re: INFO on add-ons, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/02