On 06/01/2013 02:58 PM, Tong Sun wrote: > OMG, it's 10x simpler. All you need is your text editor, and AsciiDoc > of course.
If the manual you are trying to use as a starting point is already in LaTeX, then the work of converting all of it correctly to any other format is large. That work is almost certainly not worth doing. Look at the subject line of this thread. The goal of the "offline documentation" component that was discussed at UDS was, I thought, to base a printed Lubuntu Manual on the existing one at http://ubuntu-manual.org/ -- which is written using LaTeX. So, for that project, continuing to use LaTeX makes sense. For me, I already know and have used HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, Markdown, reStructuredText and a few wiki markup syntaxes as well ... so I am *really* not that interested in learning yet another one of these markup systems for the purpose of creating documentation :) Incidentally, all of these can (of course) be written with "just your text editor" and the formatter software for the system concerned, so Asciidoc is not unique in that regard. For the purposes of creating an Lubuntu Manual, my *strong* recommendation is to use what the Ubuntu Manual is using -- LaTeX. For other new projects... pick one you like and stick with it :) Can I suggest we make a decision and get started, rather than discussing alternative formatting systems? There is plenty of real documentation work, if we truly want to get a manual done :) Jonathan -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
