On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 06:03:25PM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > A format that converts well to both PDF and HTML and looks good in
> > both cases would be preferable.
>
> Both latex and docbook do. Both are in that sense pretty much
> equivalent. Actualy both can be converted into eachother with
> some scripts (+/- some formats). Personally i prefere latex
> over docbook as it cluters the text less with formating strings
> but that's somewhat like C vs Pascal.
I'm going to stick my neck out a little here, and argue that docbook
is more of a cross-platform format, and therefore editable and outputtable
on more op systems. Also, more people understand XML syntax than latex.
If someone can save me a little time by suggesting some specific
authoring packages to consider, I'm willing to test a candidate or two and
report back to the group. Linux-compatible authoring packages only, please.
I have Debian and Gentoo installed, if that matters.
Any editor plus Subversion ought to give us shared authorship
capability, shouldn't it?
(A Wiki might be easier to convert automatically to the preferred
format if we define some custom markup flags to use in the Wiki. I'd expect
there'd still be some manual tagging, though. Besides, somebody is going to
have to play editor for the released draft, and bring the English up to
professional standards. The Wiki might serve more as an internal
engineering notebook to save information before it gets forgotten, than as a
direct source of content for any releasable document.)
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