On 6/13/06, Susan Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Okay, folks, have at it. Debate time! :D
its to early for me (/me yawns) DocBook is very easy to use, the Doc Teams docs use DocBook, upstream uses DocBook, DocBook can be transformed into almost anything, the translators use it, publishers certainly don't *need* or in many cases *want* LaTeX, and I second the point about Rosetta. Although many of these points where addressed by others, i really just wanted to second them and also point out that we have had these types of discussions every few months about what doc formats to use and we always come back to using DocBook after many (sometimes very long) debates. Using DocBook will keep your work consistent and compatible with everything everyone else is doing. (maybe i am just a little grumpy this morning so i hope this doesn't sound harsh but) can we stop having these doc format debates. Just use DocBook, its simple text markup, any body can learn the basics of in twenty minutes and its offers an great deal of flexibility. And if the cookbook is going to ship with Edubuntu... Yelp uses DocBook. All signs point to DocBook every time we get into these doc format debates. To me the decision has always been obvious, just use DocBook, stop worrying about it and do some real work like writing the book. /me goes to get coffee :) -- Matt T. Galvin mgalvin on irc.freenode.net http://people.simplifiedcomplexity.com/~mgalvin/ Ubuntu Documentation Team Member -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
