Re: EDU-HowTo Standard (was Re: XML vs DocBooks)

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Bill Tihen -- TECHNOLOGY wrote:

> I had been thinking of these comments and had decided to
> start writing a standard template that could be the
> starting point for EDU-HowTo's and Tutorials.  In
> addition to a template I thought we could have an
> appendix listing the standard tag or notation used for
> certain things like:  example code, commands the user
> types, what the screen displays, etc.  I was going to
> base it on something like the O'Reilly standards.  I
> think there are DocBook tags that fit our needs -- so it
> will really just be a matter of listing them so that we
> use them appropriately.

That's pretty much how I was thinking about limiting ourselves to a
subset of DocBook.  I suspect that Ramin would agree with it too.
Go for it!

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