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Re: When do tags stop being a good idea?

• To: Bob Hutchison <hutch@x...>
• Subject: Re: When do tags stop being a good idea?
• From: bob mcwhirter <bob@w...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:51:59 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org (E-mail)" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <B92CC8F3.B3E1%hutch@x...>

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Bob Hutchison wrote:

> This message I'm writing follows a simple convention for email notes. Text
> arranged in paragraphs that are separated by blank lines.
> 
> Like that. We all know that this blank line is supposed indicate that what
> follows is a new paragraph.

fwiw, this is pretty much the TeX mentality.

I refuse to use DocBook for exactly this reason.  It's so much easier
to markup some plaintext to [La]TeX than it is to rough in the DocBook
structures.

The old is new again.

	-bob

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