On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Peter Gerwinski wrote: [...]

One could consider moving to DocBook (SGML) which can produce GNU Texinfo (and TeX and HTML and whatever).

Opinions?

DocBook is very nice for technical documentation, and it appears to be the standard for a lot of free software projects such as Linux, GNOME and KDE. Currently GNOME is using the SGML version, but they have standardized on not using the SGML shorthands like </> so that migration to XML will be painless. I think an upcomming version of the Help browser will support on-the-fly formating of DocBook documents.

Information on the GNOME documentation project complete with a really nice getting started manual can be found here:

http://www.gnome.org/gdp/

-- Tov Are Jacobsen