[TUHS] Proliferation of book print styles

[Adam Thornton]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:22 AM Marc Donner <marc.donner at 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
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