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I wish there we had an S-Expressions based alternative to Docbook for writing manuals and books. You can argue that DSSSL should have been preferred over XSL an
by cm3 11y ago
I wish there we had an S-Expressions based alternative to Docbook for writing manuals and books. You can argue that DSSSL should have been preferred over XSL and friends but people seem to like verbosity even if the alternative (S-Expressions) is as precise and unambiguous.
- brudgers 11y agoMathew Flatt's Scribble might be in that ballpark I think. http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html?q=dot http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html?q=dot
- pjmlp 11y agoBack when we were writing documentation in Docbook we just used a GUI editor like oXygen , so it did not matter.
- outworlder 11y agoNot a pure S-Expression based (it defines its own language), but it is intended for writing books: http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/ http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/ practicaltypography.com was made with it.