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[Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 00:10 +0000, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> 
> If we primarily care about HTML, and secondarily about PDF...why not
> write the book *in* HTML? See Mark Pilgrim's reasons for doing so for
> his books at http://mark.pilgrim.usesthis.com/ and
> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/27/dive-into-history-2009-edition and in particular I should note that HTML's a lot better known than DocBook is. :)

Dang it, I wrote both of the Quickly tutorials in HTML, and then changed
them to docbook because someone told me I was "supposed to".

I suppose we could author in HTML, and then use a transform to create
DocBook out of that if we are strict with our HTML.

Cheers, Rick