I am of the opinion that the individual who does the writing gets to pick their tool. Others can always arrange for conversion to some other tool/file format.
For those who have writen any geda documentation... much thanks... Steve Meier On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 07:56, Al Davis wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2005 04:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > Can you and Dan and Harry live with radical changes to your > > doc? I do believe I would improve it, but it would look a > > lot different. > > Since I am not Dan or Harry, I can't speak for them, but if > someone were to come to me wanting to completely rewrite the > gnucap documentation, I would enthusiastically welcome the > contribution. The documentation is the way it is because that > is all I have the time to do. Making the documentation look > professional is a valuable contribution that a non-coder can > make. > > On Monday 18 July 2005 04:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > I'd also jettison .tex and write it in OOWriter, and export > > .pdf. You could include both the .sxw and the .pdf files in > > your distribution tarballs. > > I take issue with this one. Tex shows its best when it used for > large documents. OOWriter is too much like Microsoft Word for > me. I only use it for MS-word documents. Even for MS-word > documents, I use Kword or Abiword instead if I can get away > with it. I still use LaTeX for big stuff, but I use something > graphic like kword or lyx for small stuff. I am not sure I > could cope with a 500 page document in kword, lyx, oowriter, > MS-word or anything similar. > > Whatever is used, it needs to be able to generate both .pdf > and .html., both with indexing and active links. Of course it > also must be "free" in the same sense that our software is. > >
