Re: [SLUG] Tools for documentation.

[Andrew Morton <andrewm@nospam.uow.edu.au>]

Chuck Dale wrote:
> 
> [ snip ]

Yes, you're right.  I'm too old to learn emacs.

> Conglomerate:
> 
>         Is only in proof of concept stage at the moment. The proof, however,
>         looks very very nice. I like the idea a lot.
> 
>         http://www.conglomerate.net
> 
>         Even if it only supports XML, so does DocBook, so no problem there.
> 
>         It is being totally rewritten/implemented at the moment so waiting
>         with dripping jaws.

Yes.  Explicit awareness of the document structure.  Should be
interesting.

> > And one other thing:  changebars.
> 
> Non capito. What is a changebar?

The ability to have those little vertical lines on the LHS of the page
indicating which parts of the document have changed since the previous
revision.

Quite invaluable for large documents which go through multiple reviews
and revisions.  You don't want to wade through hundreds of pages
wondering what has changed since last time you read it.

This is very, very hard to do with a docbook/latex style toolchain. 
Really, your editor has to be aware of (and to be able to alter) the
markup.
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