--- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
and one of the best ways to *fail* to change their mind is to plonk 1400 pages of documentation in front of them and say 'here's what you should be using,
Then don't do that.
You don't plonk the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual (5000 pages) in front of your secretary if you want her to type a few pages in M$-Word. You just give her a "Word for Dummies" book and that is all she needs. She don't need to know about the difference between AGP and PCI-X bus.
You're quite right. I let the current confrontational 'vibe' of this mailing list get the better of me. Sorry. The point I was trying to make is that there are many people, myself included, who need to be given real arguments in favour of using something like TEI, and who won't accept that TEI does things the right way just because it's been around for a while :). There's quite a few people like me at DP, and I imagine there are quite a few more reading gutvol-d. As I've convinced myself that, at least in the areas I've investigated, TEI's methods seem quite sensible, I'm more open to 'trusting' the rest of it... and I thought some people would be interested in joining me on this journey. As gutvol-d is being a little too confrontational for me at the moment, I'll probably go back to exhibiting my enthusiasm in the more congenial atmosphere of DP. -- Jon Ingram _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com