On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> On 26 November 2011 14:25, Robert Dionne <dio...@dionne-associates.com> wrote:
>> +1 for Latex
>
> Hi Robert, all,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read all that!
>
> Specific design & tools aside, are you willing to support at least the
> principle of upgrading/improvement of the documentation?
Yes of course, I'm not fundamentally opposed to any technology. I was only
seconding the suggestion of the use of LaTEX as I find it superior to docbook
in every way. It seems to me that if we want
the programmers to contribute a lot of this content then something like
Markdown, Org, or even just plain text would be the easiest
>
> Or are you fundamentally against docbook? Personally, I am agnostic on
> the tool but I would like to know that I can contribute something that
> won't require rework in future, and I'll happily learn tool X to
> support that.
>
> I see little point in counting a few +1 votes and then making
> wholesale changes; this should be a consensus otherwise I'd rather
> revert to incremental changes to the wiki.
>
> A+
> Dave
