Random suggestion,

you could try a couch based system: http://substance.io/

Here is an example:
http://substance.io/#michael/data-js

No connection to the project, just been following it in the user list.
Looks nice. I am sure its missing exports to all the various formats,
but hey, we are shooting for everything web based, right? :)

Ryan



On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 14 Jun 2011, at 18:45, Jens Rantil wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> They are also not capable of structuring documentation exhaustively. I hate 
> XML as much as the next guy, but MC's doc system is really slick and not as 
> bad once the basic infrastructure is in place (I'll show it soon, promised).
>
> Cheers
> Jan
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