Hi Christian, most of your arguments are not invalid ;) Nevertheless are we discussing writing manuals (books with more than some 100 pages) or just a bunch of Web pages (in older times: SDB articles)? Both have their merits. If it is about writing books, I do not buy your arguing about just fixing a typo after pressing the "Edit" button, because up til now most PDFs lack such a feedback button (would be a nice feature, though). Even today, you can read the PDF with okular and make annotations that you are free to submit as improvement feedback to the doc writers. If you want to contribute, there is no need to learn XML. OTOH, learning XML would not hurt ;) XML usually is easy. A paragraph is just surrounded by a <para> element and it does not matter whether you append an empty line or not. Ever tried to edit an average wiki table? Wiki table are just the rebirth of SGML (shortref and usemap features in combination with omittag: see http://books.google.de/books?id=OyJHFJsnh10C&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=sgml+shortref&source=bl&ots=DFr_Adu5eE&sig=DtHug1N95vmPDIodnZ0ZFyt5cVM&hl=en&ei=iyWsTMqAM5ac4AbY0ISWCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDkQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=sgml%20shortref&f=false --if the link is too long, just click this one: http://books.google.de/books?id=OyJHFJsnh10C&pg=PA62 ). Conclusion: Writing books is as it ever was--if you learned your lesson, it is easy, if you did not, either the reader will have a hard time or you will need a good editor... -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org