Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-28 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:33:36PM +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > I think attempting to export from LibreOffice is really pointless. I would not be too sure of that. For the audience of this list: absolutely. For the users of our product: unlikely. RST, MarkDown, MediaWiki are transparent

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-28 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, Am 27.11.2014 00:29 schrieb "Bjoern Michaelsen" < bjoern.michael...@canonical.com>: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 01:16:14AM + > Personally MarkDown seems fine to me and we are actually already using it > elsewhere in the project (e.g. Infra docs, Redmine) IIRC. For infra-internal docs we use

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-28 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, Am 26.11.2014 23:53 schrieb "Kohei Yoshida" : > On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 13:17 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > > > > > Also, what would the feasibility of using Markdown syntax, ala > > github.io? > > Actually this may be an interesting choice for us in the long run. > Markdown[1] seems to be po

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > If one of our wonderful Document Liberation guys would volunteer to mentor > that, we could have an Easy Hack making LibreOffice exporting/importing > MarkDown would be awesome ... > FWIW, there's - pandoc for conversion to odt: http://johnmacfarlane.net/BayHac2014

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-26 Thread Anthonys Lists
On 26/11/2014 23:16, Tor Lillqvist wrote: I wonder if it is politically controversial to be seen as "supporting" a markup language, though, the antithesis to WYSIWYG... Even if it is a quite new and minimal markup language, that doesn't pretend to be even close to full-featured (like troff or T

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 01:16:14AM +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > I wonder if it is politically controversial to be seen as "supporting" a > markup language, though, the antithesis to WYSIWYG... Even if it is a quite > new and minimal markup language, that doesn't pretend to be even close to >

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I wonder if it is politically controversial to be seen as "supporting" a markup language, though, the antithesis to WYSIWYG... Even if it is a quite new and minimal markup language, that doesn't pretend to be even close to full-featured (like troff or TeX). I can imagine the reaction among the tro

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-26 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 13:17 +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > > Also, what would the feasibility of using Markdown syntax, ala > github.io? Actually this may be an interesting choice for us in the long run. Markdown[1] seems to be popular syntax of choice for README files in many open source projec

Re: Formatting of README files

2014-11-25 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi Chris, On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 01:17:07PM +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > I noticed that there is some minor formatting capabilities on the > docs.libreoffice.org website for readmes. > > e.g. http://docs.libreoffice.org/vcl.html shows headings, which uses > Wikimedia style double-equals sign