Re: [xml-dev] When do tags stop being a good idea?

[bob mcwhirter <bob@werken.com>]

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