[Typo3-doc] Reason for dropping DocBook...

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

Jean-Marie Schweizer wrote:
> Before we get carried away any more, can one of those decision makers
> (Ingmar, Robert, Sebastian, Sylvain) please explain why DocBook didn't
> make it as the overall documentation format?

It has been answered already (and correctly, I remember the relevant
discussions from the tour): there is no really user friendly editor
available that would make use of the advantages of DocBook.

I experienced this: after a short while noone else was working on a
documentation project that had started out with a fair amount of hope, and
the reason that was given was the complexity involved with writing it.

Thus the idea of creating timtaw was born, together with enabling round-trip
editing between timtaw and OOo.

Regards,
Karsten
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Karsten Dambekalns
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