Romain, what is the best way to take this forward?

I can write up a summary if that helps?

On 25 Jul 2012, at 17:05, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:

> Hmm, these feedbacks are really relevant and should be pushed to infra i
> think, no?
> 
> it is simply a matter of adding some hooks in the cms but i think it is
> better to had them in the cms instead of "by project"
> 
> wdyt?
> 
> - Romain
> 
> 
> 2012/7/25 Pete Muir <[email protected]>
> 
>> 
>> On 25 Jul 2012, at 16:36, Matt Benson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Pete Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 25 Jul 2012, at 16:16, Matt Benson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Pete Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 25 Jul 2012, at 07:17, Mark Struberg wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> David, the CMS is already set up and running (in SVN [1]). We just
>> need a bit more stylish css.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And you can perfectly create pdf docs out of markdown.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Of course we can also use alternative formats. But to me this is
>> like a colour preference - markdown is supported out of the box and
>> provides all needed options.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My only concern here is that Markdown doesn't support a few useful
>> things for full on docs (vs readmes and snippets of text):
>>>>> 
>>>>> FWIW,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * admonitions
>>>>> I.e., warnings?  What are you looking for here?
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, admonitions is the term given (I think by docbook) to the boxouts
>> that are e.g. Warning, Info, Important.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> * callouts on code
>>>>> Again, not sure I know what you're meaning here.
>>>> 
>>>> I can have a little icon (e.g. a 1), next to a line of code, then a
>> table at the bottom of the codeblock that links to that. Allows you to
>> annotate a code block with notes.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> * a standard way of indicating what the source language of a code
>> block is
>>>>> Apache CMS has this.
>>>> 
>>>> Cool. How would this work if we were also producing pdfs and epubs? Is
>> this a standard extension to markdown?
>>> 
>>> Yes; the code highlighting is done with
>>> http://freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/CodeHilite; depending
>>> on the structure of whatever mechanism would be theoretically used to
>>> produce other formats, we'd presumably just make the same extensions
>>> available.
>> 
>> That works :-)
>> 
>> 

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