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For an actual typing-on-the-keyboard format, it seems like almost anything would have been better, particularly given the number of markup languages that can tr

by girzel 11y ago

For an actual typing-on-the-keyboard format, it seems like almost anything would have been better, particularly given the number of markup languages that can translate trivially into XML. I may have misunderstood -- he was actually typing in XML tags as he wrote the book, right?

rsc 11y ago
Yes, they did. I saw the XML and it didn't look much different from well-written HTML. The amount of markup you need for a book is fairly minimal: h1, h2, p, b, i, c (code font), ix (index entry). Think of it as a customizable HTML.