+1 for Markdown, and +2 for reStructuredText :-)
I would see the field list feature of rst to be useful when describing the 
attributes.

-- zvr


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:33 AM
To: Manbeck, Jack <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Using markdown for the SPDX Specs

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Manbeck, Jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kate,
> We have been kicking around how to do a web version of the specification.
> Using markdown may be the answer. We could convert that to HTML or 
> even PDF, etc. for the website.  I’ve copied the list as well as 
> others may have some thoughts. We’ve been using it internally here at 
> TI to generate documents and like it but maybe nothing as large as the 
> spec itself. That might take a bit of discipline on our part. The link 
> below is an overview of markdown see what you think.
>
> https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Big +1 for markdown or reStructuredText.  reStructuredText may be more adapted 
to complex spec documents. In any case one or the other would much better than 
the current approach. And pandoc and a legion of tools can easily convert to 
any format.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne
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