discuss: task list
Subject:
Re: [discuss] task list
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
11 Sep 2008 08:27:09 +0100
Message-Id: <20080911072443.GB2626@davespc>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:09:20AM +0200, jdd wrote:
> David Lawyer a ?crit :
>
>> For writing HOWTO's by people who don't know docbook, I suggest
>> LinuxDoc.
>
> The goal of the ldp is to give doc in a format able to translate to the
> maximum number of other formats.
LinuxDoc and DocBook translate into these other formats.
>
> If I understand well, we *don't* provide these other formats on line
Of course we provide html online.
> (should we?), so the source must be in the format the more and the
> easier backend exists, probably docbook.
>
> But what about using Moin-Wiki markup for writing HOWTOs?
>
> well... this is what we try to do :-), at least on the wiki. I don't see
> real reason to use MoinMoin markup outside of the wiki, anybody can use
> the ldp wiki.
Not always. Suppose you are not connected at home to the Internet.
Or suppose you have a dialup connection to the Internet and don't want
to tie up your phone line for a long time. Another problem is that it
may be a bother and take time to get on the Internet, your ISP might
be down, etc. Also, there are sometimes time limits for being
connected to the Internet or even time charges (some phone calls cost
per minute). So there are some people that would rather work
off-line, especially those in poor countries.
>
> One of the reason I think it important to be able to allow protected
> page is to allow author to begin drafts. I know I personally dislike
> showing drafts! and setting a MoinMoin wiki is not that easy, so we
> can't ask authors to setup one on they own machine.
>
>> It's likely just as easy as a subset of Linuxdoc. So could we ask for
>> someone to look into converting Moin-Wiki to Linuxdoc and conversely.
>
> as long as it's easy to convert *automatically* from wiki to docbook,
> converting *to* wiki is a one way work
>
> I know of no conversion process really able to work without using the
> least common denominator of the two languages, too bad :-)
Of course. But couldn't one find the subset of docbook and linuxdoc
that corresponds to wiki and then just use those subsets so that one
could write in docbook or linuxdoc and automatically covert to wiki
(if the converters existed). But there may be some parts of the wiki
markup that can't be expressed in docbook/linuxdoc.
David Lawyer
