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Straight text would allow many contributors' copy to be uniformly
formatted by one person. Consistent structure is important, but might be
difficult to achieve if several authors try to create the same structure
separately.

Just a thought. I haven't worked on a project like this that involves
many people. There probably is more to it than is obvious to me and some
tricks that I haven't even thought might exist yet...

That was a hint to anyone who *has* worked on something like this...

;)

David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> Ken Hansen <n2vip at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Are we publishing a book or filling a web site with
> > content?
> >
> > straight text is the most malleable format, IMHO
> 
> I beg to differ.  Plain text does not contain any structural markup.  In
> a large document, consistent structure is vital, both for websites and
> for books.  HTML done correctly is suitable, but IMO DocBook and TeX are
> *more* suitable, as it is much less easy to break out of the structure
> and let presentation triumph over content.
> 
> Seeing that Bill has vetoed TeX, I guess we're left with a choice of
> DocBook or DocBook.
> 
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