Re: Docmentation/FAQs

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

Chris Travers wrote:
> There is also LaTeX2HTML for the manual if we want to go that route.
> That will allow people to edit it in LyX if they want.
>
> 1000's of options.....

Well not to be a curmudgeon but I will *not* use lyx or latex. I have no 
problem with latex as a middle man formatter but I am not interested in 
any way in using it for writing.

Joshua D. Drake


> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
>
> On 9/21/06, Joshua D. Drake <..hidden..> wrote:
> > > Josh mentions DocBook XML, which I've seen used in other projects.  I also
> > > know there are numerous pre-built tools to get the source file into a bunch
> > > of formats.  I'm not familiar  with docbook's xml schema -- How hard is it
> > > for someone to get up to speed to be able to make useful contributions?
> > Easy :) as long as you don't make it difficult. You could also use
> > SimpleDocbook which I believe is what Oreilly uses for their books. It
> > is basically docbook without 500 tags :).
> >
> > The nice thing about docbook is:
> >
> > db2html
> > db2ps
> > db2pdf
> > db2ascii
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> >
> >
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