Re: [GD-Design] Design Documents

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:04:16 -0600 
Mike Sellers <Sellers> wrote:

> FWIW, I don't know anyone using SGML or LaTeX -- are people really
> still using these?

A lot of 'net related documentation is written in DocBook (which is
SGML-compliant).  Many (most?) technical journals require
submissions in TeX with several also accepting the LaTeX macro set
(all that I've run into).  As I'm a dinosaur I do all my letters,
reports, articles etc in LaTeX.  More specifically I refuse to use
page-layout styled word processors.  Useless things.  I want and use
markup languages for document authoring.

As to the size of the population?  Not sure.  LyX, a GUI front end
to LaTex is actively maintained and developed as is the auctex mode
for (X)Emacs, and per the mailing lists seems to have a reasonably
active user base.  A decent percentage of the technical
documentation sites I used are auto-genned by exporting HTML from
DocBook (they typically also export PS, and PDF).  A couple of the
companies I've worked for (most notably IBM) kept all their product
documentation under something that was very DocBook-like (different
name I forget).  Beyond that I've few/no impressions on their wider
use.

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J C Lawrence
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