Marc Britten (yugami@usxchange.net)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:38:17 -0500
Sandy Harris wrote:
>
> Guylhem Aznar wrote:
>
> > Once we agree on a documentation format, no doubt we will
> > improve/recode the tools.
>
> Methinks it is pointless to attempt to "agree on a documentation
> format" if by that you mean an authoring format. Certainly there
> is a lot of documentation out there in various formats, and you
> can make a case for using several input formats:
>
<snip>
>
> So I don't think we should be trying to agree on an input format. If
> a consensus arises as tools evolve and experience accumulates, fine.
> If particular projects want to limit themselves to a single format --
> DocBook for OSWG, Texinfo for GNU, ... -- that's fine too.
>
> In the meanwhile, the interesting question is:
>
> Given all these input formats, how do we deliver documentation in a
> single searchable well-indexed output format?
read the posting under the subject Proposal, if we agree on a common
internal format w/ good conversion(to and from) tools we can accept any
format, convert it to ours, store it, and when someone grabs it, they
can convert it into whatever they want.
-- --------- So much information, so little time Marc Britten Linux KnowledgeBase Developer
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