Re: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Roger Haase
--- Ian Bicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The documentation format discussion kind of died down, but I'd like to do some documenting, and that's one of those fleeting motivations you really have to grab onto ;) Anyway, after looking some at the XML produced by reST, I think the format

Re: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Matt Feifarek
Ian Bicking wrote: The documentation format discussion kind of died down, but I'd like to I know that I'm late to this discussion, but something has occurred to me. As I understand it, OpenOffice stores all of its docs in pure XML format. What if we had someone design a SIMPLE template, then

Re: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Aaron Held
Enought writing about how to write, just write! The format DOES NOT MATTER as long as it has some logic. reStruct, XML, docbook, gentoo, OpenOffice ... all can be CONVERTED to something. Here is a deal. Once we have written 30 new pages of documentation we will revisit this topic and see what

Re: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Ray Leyva
I've already done some heavy work in transforming the OO-Xml files to other things. It's definitely do-able, but from my perspective I'd rather go with something that VIM, or Emacs, or heck even nano can open. reST seems to be amazingly easy. I say go with reST, and we'll work out the

RE: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
To: Webware discuss Subject: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format The documentation format discussion kind of died down, but I'd like to do some documenting, and that's one of those fleeting motivations you really have to grab onto ;) Anyway, after looking some at the XML produced by reST, I

Re: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Ian Bicking
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:09, Roger Haase wrote: At the risk of making the documentation project even harder, it seems to me the best place to create Webware documentation is in a TWiki-like environment because mass participation would be so easy. Having looked over the reStructuredText specs

Re: [Webware-discuss] Documentation format

2002-10-30 Thread Ian Bicking
I know... it's only because I'm planning on ripping out old markup and replacing it with new markup that I'm reluctant to dive in without feedback. But now that I have that feedback I'll move forward on that. On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 10:04, Aaron Held wrote: Enought writing about how to write,