| From: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [DOCS] lyx and sgml |
| Date: | 1999-01-05 03:49:36 |
| Message-ID: | 36918BD0.BB6FB85C@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> Good. Seems like a natural. I will keep my eyes on it. lyx really
> seems like an amazing word processor. Like troff, but for X windows,
> and more flexible.
> Because most of my stuff is only a few pages, troff works just fine,
> Certainly the PostgreSQL docs are too large for a troff-only project,
> but I can see lyx handling it nicely.
I haven't actually run lyx (since it didn't support my toolset), but had
subscribed to their mailing list for quite a while to stay in touch with
it. afaik it is a wysiwyg text entry application, and it would use sgml
tags both internally and as the markup for output docs. So we would
still use jade to generate our production output.
- Tom
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