Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 11/15/2011 12:06 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: Am 15.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Anthony Liguori: Markdown is nice for separated specs and README files, but is it also possible to create a complete printed manual from all markdown files? I think high quality information beats pretty formatting any day.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 15.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Anthony Liguori: On 11/15/2011 02:28 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Right now our specs are written in psuedo-wiki syntax. This series converts them to markdown. markdown is a simple markup format that's gaining in popularity

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Alex Bradbury wrote: > On 15 November 2011 13:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Does markdown support rendering into man pages? > > You can do this via pandoc: > http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ Actually we are having the very same issue on xen right now: we have a manual written

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 11/15/2011 07:51 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/15/2011 03:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Nice. Suggest you enable rename detection, to make patches like these easier to read (not that it truly matters in the particular case). I haven't figured out yet how to make this sane to merge, but I've

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Alex Bradbury
On 15 November 2011 13:51, Avi Kivity wrote: > Does markdown support rendering into man pages? You can do this via pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/15/2011 03:44 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 11/15/2011 02:28 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> Right now our specs are written in psuedo-wiki syntax. This series >>> converts >>> them to markdown. markdown is a simple markup format that's gaining

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 11/15/2011 02:28 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: Right now our specs are written in psuedo-wiki syntax. This series converts them to markdown. markdown is a simple markup format that's gaining in popularity. The big advantage of using markdown is that t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 11/15/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Right now our specs are written in psuedo-wiki syntax. This series converts > them to markdown. markdown is a simple markup format that's gaining in > popularity. > > The big advantage of using markdown is that there are tools that can convert > i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

2011-11-14 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 14.11.2011 23:41, schrieb Anthony Liguori: Right now our specs are written in psuedo-wiki syntax. This series converts them to markdown. markdown is a simple markup format that's gaining in popularity. The big advantage of using markdown is that there are tools that can convert it to relati