DocBook and introduction

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

Matthew East wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2007 1:51 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 21:01 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> I'm hoping that we can move the styleguide into the wiki at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/StyleGuide, although it
> still needs some work on it to tidy up some of the problems caused by
> importing it from xml. We should probably chunk it into different
> subpages too.

I'm happy to work on tidying after you've set up the sub-pages on the 
Wiki...

>> The document you linked to would fit
>> perfectly in the "DocBook Conventions" section I think, but it might be
>> better just to link to the document from the Ubuntu style guide rather
>> than reproduce it in full, for ease of maintenance. Of course, then the
>> style guide wouldn't form a self-contained document, but I doubt anyone
>> would actually use it as such anyway...
> 
> You'd also have the problem of licensing - the style guide is public
> domain so you can't just copy copyrighted material into it.

I can if I get author permission first. :) Realistically though a lot of 
the information that's in the LDPAG can be written from scratch without 
much effort.


regards,
emma

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