+1 Agreed. Unfortunately latex needs to go.
--- Mobile > On 25 Apr 2017, at 19:02, Johannes Burk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Regarding to the discussion about bringing some breath of fresh air into this > project we should also think about of how to reduce the threshold of > participating. > Beside the ideas already mentioned by some on this list (an explicit call for > help/contributions and providing a guide about how to contribute) I want to > propose a slightly more drastically step: Stop using latex and switch to a > more intuitive and human readably language, making contributions as easy as > editing a wiki page. But we have not to stop using latex completely nor > abandon the PDF as the final product. It’s just necessary to rethink the > build chain. Using markdown as the language to write the document (or maybe > just as an option for contributions) and a converter like pandoc would allow > to easily contribute but also using latex for advanced formatting and get a > PDF as the final product. > > I saw there was already a thread about conversion to markdown/RST a year ago > (march 2016). But the discussion ended without any final conclusions. > > Just my two cents, > Johannes (a silent listener on this list, so I’m sorry for using the “we” > phrasing) > _______________________________________________ > Ach mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cert.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ach _______________________________________________ Ach mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cert.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ach
