And people who tell me that I should use a graphical front-end for XML
mark-up are equally clueless. It's not faster at all to move my hand
towards the mouse, find the menu, and choose one of 200 DocBook
elements
just to put a word in constant-width font (as it turns out
eventually in
PDF, HTML, or any other of DocBook supported formats). Ridiculous.
It is a fantastic way to lose the concentration during writing.
As I progressed through my manual I diligently tagged each word that
should be tagged, got tired of that and ended up basically writing the
plain ASCII text just to be able to concentrate on writing.
Then I went through a text for proofreading and used my Vim function
(bound to a keystroke) to enclose words in tags selected from the
narrow
vertical buffer with DocBook keywords.