Just throwing in my 2 cents in this discussion.

On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Noah Slater wrote:

/doc
/doc/docbook
/doc/docbook/root.xml
/doc/docbook/ch1.xml
/doc/docbook/ch2.xml
/doc/docbook/ch3.xml
/doc/Makefile.am

You get the idea. The Makefile.am would contain a bunch of rules that would 
allow us to convert this DocBook into plain text, DocBook, man, info, LaTeX, 
PostScript, and PDF as needed. All very straight forward.

Is really writing documentation XML the best we can come up with? How about 
using 'pandoc' (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) to write documentation in 
restructuredText, markdown or textile instead? They are all way easier to read 
and write for newcomers.

/J

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