Re: Edu howto idea.

[Douglas Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

>>>MA == Michael A Hamblin <michaelh@utdallas.edu> wrote at Sat, 12 Dec 1998
15:27:28 -0400 :
>On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Bill Tihen wrote:
>
>[snip]
>> It's been a dream of mine to have a website that offers set-up
instructions
>> (How-tos) for schools.
>> Does this sound like a good idea?
>
>Definatly :) Although some cross reference with the LDP would make this go
>by a lot faster. I don't see a reason to rewrite some howtos from the
>ground up if they already exist of course, but I also wouldn't like a
>"forked" how-to, where there is the 'regular' copy of the howto and the
>'educational' copy.  Education specific material could be covered in the
>Educational howtos with references to the main howtos.
>
I'm currently working with the LDP to get our Commercial Port Advocacy
mini-HOWTO made into an official part of the LDP.  I'm finding that working
with them isn't very fast.  If you do want to, it's a very good idea to
install and learn SGMLTools <http://www.sgmltools.org> as that's what they
use to create their stuff.

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