On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

> Keep in mind, no matter what format we choose we do need to roll our 
> own engine.
> 
> > It would also be a big transition from docbook to another format. 
> > We'd definitely need a translation tool to help us. I'm not sure 
> > what is out there, but I can definitely say what is not out there: a 
> > docbook to our-custom-markdown formatter. That's another thing to 
> > keep in mind.
> 
> Any off-the-shelf docbook->ascidoc/rST/markdown/whatever is not going
> to work anyway, so it doesn't matter what is out there :)

Hmm, sortof not. I have been using rST for ages, and all my articles are 
written in it: https://github.com/derickr/derickrethans-articles

It has some custom things, such as the meta data, support for vimeo etc 
as rST allows for you own definitions. I use Zeta Components' converter 
to get from rST to XHTML and have written some modifications. It also 
helps that the same stack allows rST->docbook and docbook->rST. And the 
stack allows for easy enough modifications...

cheers,
Derick

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