[freeroleplay] Re: [Fwd: Free-Content Licensing of FUDGE]
- From: Samuel Penn <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:34:00 +0000
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 21:39, Jamie Jensen wrote:
> Good to hear I'm not missing much by not learning DocBook, though I
> certainly wish there were a good, publishing-quality XML format for
> books, considering how much simpler XML is than TeX.
My problem with Docbook was that I was trying to document an
XML file format. Documenting XML in XML is really nasty, and
I hoped that there was a nice way of doing it. There wasn't,
and the only way forward was to make use of lots of escaped
XML within XML. I can't believe that I'm the only person who's
had a need to document XML.
It didn't take me look to come up with my own document format
which did what I wanted, so I went with that instead. I can now
document my XML without too much hassle:
http://yagsbook.sourceforge.net/pagexml/xmlroot.html
> > Hmm, we're starting to talk about licenses again rather than actual
> > game content aren't we? Which is partly my point I suppose.
>
> Another good point, though one we can personally fix. Anyone want to
> discuss some new game mechanic/setting/concept idea they've had
> recently?
Nothing at the moment, but I'm on holiday from next Wednesday, so
hopefully I'll have some time to start doing some stuff again.
Reuters have also decided to sack most of their development staff
and ship development of the project I'm on out to India, so hopefully
my contract there will end mid-February and I can go back to working
closer to home, which means more time for gaming.
Currently I'm running a brief spot of GURPS Conan (using GURPS 4th
and d20 Conan setting). Out of all the d20 material I've seen, I
think the Conan stuff is probably the best (and the Conan d20 rules
are actually better than the core D&D rules in many respects).
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