I'm sure Dan meant no harm and do agree with Lex in that, most certainly, this is not the right place for questions whose answer demand the presentation of opinions. I should have phrased differently that second last question of mine and for that I owe you, all, an apology. I'm sorry.
All in all, I'm glad I had the chance of chatting with you, guys. It has been, indeed, a pleasant and very instructive chat. Thank you for having me, Lex and Dan. I will continue tinkering with my Asccidoc.py installation and will sure try out *xmlto*, *publican* and---you bet it, Lex---*a2x.py* ;-) Cheers, Zam El miércoles, 3 de marzo de 2021 a la(s) 00:15:27 UTC, [email protected] escribió: > I want to go a little further with my correction. I did not intend to > criticize a2x. It has done an amazing job for a very long time of being a > DocBook toolchain frontend and hiding much of the complexity of using such > a powerful and extensible tool. What I was trying to suggest is that if you > just need a DocBook toolchain wrapper, there are projects like xmlto that > only do that one thing. That doesn't make them better, but does offer the > potential to be installable as a standalone tool. You need to decide for > yourself what works best for you. > > If my earlier criticism offended the maintainers of this project in any > way, I do apologize as that was not my intent. > > Best Regards, > > -Dan > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 16:58 Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Lex wrote: >> > I don't agree with Dan's assessment of a2x, if it works for you its >> fine to use, old doesn't mean bad, it hasn't changed much because it hasn't >> needed to. >> >> I didn't mean to suggest old is bad. I'm simply suggesting that if you're >> looking to adopt a new tool, you should evaluate whether there's a more >> modern option that has kept up with the developments in the DocBook >> toolchain. What we do know is that a2x hasn't been updated that much. But >> if it works for someone, and no updates were needed, by all means use it. >> >> -Dan >> >> -- >> Dan Allen (he, him, his) | @mojavelinux | https://twitter.com/mojavelinux >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/asciidoc/d161b89d-3b38-4566-a6a7-681d49d3e810n%40googlegroups.com.
