On 01/06/13 04:56, Tong Sun wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Marsden > <jmars...@fastmail.fm <mailto:jmars...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: > > As far as I can see, Mallard is primarily intended for online > browseable > documentation, with output to other offline formats being secondary. > LaTeX appears to be the other way around in terms of its priorities. > > > While I was following the thread, I couldn't help but attempting to > recommend something else -- asciidoc from http://asciidoc.org/, > because after all, when writing, the main focus should be on the > content, and if the formatting is getting into the way of > documentation, then that's a sign of bad choice. > > Hope that I am not shooting myself in the foot to recommend asciidoc, > because you are writing in (almost) plain text and have all sort of > tools to post-process for you, be it doc-book, or latex, to produce > anything, html file, pdf files, slides, etc, etc. > > What prompted me to the recommendation is that, today I noticed on > the asciidoc mlist (http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/), > the Mallard is now supported as another asciidoc backend, just like > the doc-book/latex does. Hope that could make LUbuntu documentation a > bit easier. > > > >
That sounds useful as I am probably far better at writing stuff than I am at markup, esp if keeping that markup consistent with other docs, also if its in a central format then other versions can be produced from that central document so docbook, xml, html, latex etc Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
