Re: Editor for sgml files

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:23:16AM -0800, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > You might be, but that's approximately what happened.  Common editors
> > for this task are Emacs and Vim, each of which has varying levels of
> > support for SGML :)
>
> That is amazing. The layout and organization of the PostgreSQL manual
> (to me) is superior to most other reference documents that I view.

I suspect it's from steely discipline, attention to quality, and the
toolkits themselves.

> Was there some sort of specification for the create of these documents
> or was it simply the implementation of good practices? I notice for
> example all reference pages have a consistent layout.

Well, there's the whole Docbook thing, which was pretty well thought
out. Apart from that, I don't know. Peter?

Cheers,
David.
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