5 Jun
2024
5 Jun
'24
3:46 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:22 AM Marc Donner <marc.donner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The standards work that created SGML went a bit
overboard, to my taste.
The only really serious adopters of SGML that I can think of were the US
military, but there may have been others.
Bookmaster (an IBM product, and I think what they used for their published
docs in the 90s into the 2000s?) was SGML based, if I remember correctly.
Writing in it was kind of lovely, and the traintrack diagrams for command
syntax were exceptionally well-done.
It made nice-looking docs (e.g.
https://distribution.sinenomine.net/opensolaris/install2.pdf)
Adam